MLB and the Players Association have agreed to a deal on how to handle the shortened season and there’s a lot of give and take, and there are bad implications for the Brewers.
Per Ken Rosenthal and Jeff Passan, players will be guaranteed service time in 2020, arbitration will be adjusted for a shortened season, and salaries will be prorated for the 2020 season.
But the biggest change will be to the Draft.
In the deal, MLB has the right to shorten the 2020 draft to five rounds, sources tell ESPN. Additionally, it can delay the start of the international signing period to as late as January 2021.