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Report: MLB formally rejects 114-game proposal

Late Sunday night, the Major League Baseball Players Association proposed a 114-game regular season, giving players roughly 70 percent of their salaries on a prorated scale.

By Monday evening, MLB owners had fired back with a proposal of their own: A 50-ish game season, still prorated, with a July start date.

While that seemed like a clear counter to the MLBPA proposal, Ken Roesenthal reports that notion is now official:

Again, this was expected. MLB firing back with what equates to less than half the games (and thus less than half the salary) of the MLBPA's latest proposal was a clear rejection of the 114-game season.