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Report: MLBPA Asks Players to Consider Seven-Inning Doubleheaders

The MLB Players Association is asking its players to consider a rules change regarding doubleheaders in 2020, according to The Athletic's Britt Ghiroli.

The MLBPA's proposal would include either one 9-inning and one 7-inning game in a doubleheader, or alternatively a pair of 7-inning games, per Ghiroli. There could also be an extension for the period in which teams use the current 30-man roster, which was supposed to decline to 28 players after two weeks, and then to 26 men two weeks after that.

MLB has run into a slate of scheduling issues in the first week of the 2020 season.