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Posted: May 04, 2020 9:14 AMUpdated: May 04, 2020 10:14 AM
Baseball Cancellation Costing Players Money
Major League Baseball is still mum on an official plan to get back to playing, as the regular season was supposed to have started a bit more than a month ago.
Spring training was interrupted in mid-March because of coronavirus concerns, and there has been no baseball since.
A new report over the weekend notes the financial incentives for players to get back to work.
There are nearly 70 major leaguers that lose more than $100,000 for each game that is nixed because of COVID-19.
Many other players will be taking a major pay cut even if games come back this summer. Well-known sports agent Scott Boras says that there are working baseball leagues in other parts of the world that the MLB can look to.
Boras also says that players have already taken a big cut in pay, and that is just part of the business.
Within the past week there has been reportedly more optimism that baseball will be played in 2020 from high-ranking baseball executives, but no official plan for resuming play has been made public.
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