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Major League Baseball owners and MLB Players’ Association ratify agreement dealing with shortened or cancelled 2020 season

MLB owners just ratified an agreement struck between MLB and the MLBPA. Details of the agreement include player pay, service time, altered structure of domestic and international draft, roster sizes, and final approval on scheduling.

In the agreement, MLB players will be advanced $170 million for the months of April and May. If there are no games played in 2020, the players will be able to keep the money. Also if there are no games this year or a partial season is played, anyone currently on a 40-man roster, the 60-day injured list or an outright assignment to the minor leagues with a major league contract will receive service time for 2020 equaling what the player accrued in 2019.