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KC Royals Midweek Musings: Shaky labor talks, Japan, and expansion

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This edition of KC Royals Midweek Musings examines ongoing labor talks, baseball in Japan, possible MLB expansion and other tidbits.

Various KC Royals Midweek Musings while trying to think good thoughts about the potential restart of Major League Baseball:

Union unhappy with MLB’s compensation offer. As anticipated, MLB delivered a new compensation proposal to the Major League Baseball Players Association Tuesday. According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the league didn’t offer to split 2020 revenue equally; instead, it proposed a sliding scale-type compensation schedule that, if accepted, would proportionally reduce the pay of higher-salaried players more than it would those with lower pay packages.