Hunt and Peck

The Cardinals are ready and want to play - A Hunt and Peck

Will the owners let them?

By lil_scooter93 Jun 8, 2020, 2:00pm EDT

MLB: Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals

Major League Baseball has made another proposal to the MLB Players’ Association. The response was... Eh, I will just let you see for yourself.

- 82 games at sliding scale = ~33% salary

- 50 games at prorated pay = ~33% salary

- 76 games at 75% prorated pay = (drumroll) ~33% salary

It all comes back to the same place. MLB keeps making the same offer in different forms. https://t.co/DVfURfN50f
— Mike Axisa (@mikeaxisa) June 8, 2020

The proposal also requires the players to sign an acknowledgement of risk waiver while playing games during this pandemic.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) June 8, 2020

The MLBPA regards today’s offer from MLB to be worse than the league’s last because it shifts greater emphasis on risk sharing in the postseason. Players would receive 50 percent of pro rata if there is no postseason, 75 if there is. @karlravechespn first on a new offer coming.
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) June 8, 2020

that’s cute
— Jack Flaherty (@Jack9Flaherty) June 8, 2020

I think our friend Wick Terrell from Red Reporter described the newest proposal pretty well:

MLB: here have a burger

MLBPA: you promised steak

MLB: [/rips burger in half] here have two burgers

MLBPA: that’s not two burgers

MLB: can make it four burgers if you want no problem
— Wick Terrell (@wickterrell) June 8, 2020

In the meantime, the Cardinals players appear to have organized, many of them posting photos on Instagram with similar captions of “I am ready — we want to play”, as pointed out by the wonder Tara Wellman:

A player-driven, coordinated social media effort? I don’t believe it... #WeWantToPlay pic.twitter.com/BnUJOHfCQU
— Tara Wellman (@tarawellman) June 8, 2020

So... I do not know, friends. The owners and players seem just as far apart as they were before and time is running out to make a deal. We will keep you posted.

MLB Owners’ Latest Offer Even Worse Than the Last One | FanGraphs Baseball