• MLB, union agree to expanded playoffs for 2020 season

    MLB, union agree to expanded playoffs for 2020 season

    MLB and the players’ union have agreed to expand the playoffs for the modified 2020 season, The Post’s Joel Sherman confirmed Thursday. The agreement expands the postseason field to 16 teams and pertain to just the 2020 playoffs. Players will receive $50 million in exchange for the expanded playoff format. There’s a possibility there will …
  • Despite recent drama, fans will fall in love with baseball again

    Despite recent drama, fans will fall in love with baseball again

    Wait … is the coast clear? Have the warring parties really retreated to their bunkers at last? Have we actually typed the words “pro rata” into laptops for the last time? Is it really OK to start talking about baseball again? You remember baseball, don’t you? Pastoral game. Nine to a side (well, 10 for …
  • MLB’s best hope is for the silent majority to rise up: Sherman

    MLB’s best hope is for the silent majority to rise up: Sherman

    There are those who are not the lead negotiators, not the spokesman. These are people who take the texts and the emails and the calls and meet your exasperation with their own. I want to believe they are the true silent majority in the major leagues. Owners, executives, players and agents who have spent weeks …
  • Players union delays vote on MLB proposal after coronavirus spike

    Players union delays vote on MLB proposal after coronavirus spike

    The MLB Players Association, recognizing the coronavirus outbreaks in key baseball states, will take another day or two before officially voting on the commissioner’s proposal of a 60-game season, an industry source said. The players will use that time to further discuss the proposed health and safety protocols for a 2020 restart. The PA’s executive …
  • MLB rejects players union’s latest proposal, digs in on 60 games

    MLB rejects players union’s latest proposal, digs in on 60 games

    The distance between 60 and 70, apparently, is a world apart in the twisted universe of Major League Baseball. The MLB Players Association announced Friday night that it received word from its partners/enemies on the other side of the aisle that there would be no more going back and forth on the amount of regular-season …
  • Baseball needs a savior after players’ counteroffer botch

    Baseball needs a savior after players’ counteroffer botch

    Well, let’s hope you enjoyed the 13 minutes in which professional baseball players enjoyed prosperity in the court of public opinion. If you blinked you missed it all, kind of like Kevin Maas’ career as Yankee Clipper 2.0. It isn’t that the MLBPA was wrong to counter the owners’ 60-game schedule Thursday with one 10 …
  • Ugly MLB talks might finally have a compromise in sight: Sherman

    Ugly MLB talks might finally have a compromise in sight: Sherman

    The third person in a room with Tony Clark and Rob Manfred shouldn’t be a UFC referee, it should be a court stenographer. As we have learned with these two sides, they are never going to agree to agree even on what they supposedly have agreed upon. One man’s framework is another’s proposal. The difference …
  • Rob Manfred showing his true colors as he lets baseball burn

    Rob Manfred showing his true colors as he lets baseball burn

    This is no longer about the greater good of the nation, or the admittedly pie-eyed notion that baseball could ever really have been a salve for the deep fissures and fractures that plague us in these dreadful days of worry and uncertainty. That was a nice notion, a throwback to a time when baseball was …
  • Rob Manfred and Tony Clark should meet face-to-face before MLB goes nuclear: Sherman

    Rob Manfred and Tony Clark should meet face-to-face before MLB goes nuclear: Sherman

    The one public service that MLB and the Players Association have provided is instruction on social distancing during a pandemic. Since the offers, counteroffers and insults have all been delivered electronically, the only threat is a computer virus. And any good tech with the correct software could prevent that. It might be forgotten to time …
  • Players’ union pushes MLB to cut to the end game

    Players’ union pushes MLB to cut to the end game

    The players basically have told MLB let’s cut to the end game — the next move should be informing the union how many games the owners are willing to play at full prorated salaries. The union told MLB on Saturday it will not be making a counter to the league’s latest proposal. Instead, union executive …