After team owners agreed to a proposal for the 2020 regular season, the plan was due to be presented to the Major League Baseball Players Association. However, amid indications from the union they would not accept a 50-50 revenue share, MLB went back to the drawing board.
The league moved ahead with presenting the MLBPA with a 67-page document that outlined various health and safety protocols in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As MLB prepared a new economic plan, the expected date with which it would be delivered to the players changed.
That moment came Tuesday, with the MLBPA receiving a proposal that called for players to take pay cuts on a sliding scale, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan:
Major League Baseball has proposed cutting the salaries of the highest-paid players in baseball, with the lowest-paid players taking lesser cuts from their full prorated shares, in its first economic proposal to the MLB Players Association, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.