Well Manfred has to offically mandate a 60 game season. Anything less and he opens up grounds for a grievance which the owners obviously want no part of. Like I said tons of pressure on Manfred.
They've been arguing the next cba for weeks now. A grievance hanging over the owners head will be huge. Tons of pressure on Manfred on how many games he states.
Now Heyman is reporting the owners will be making a couple changes to their "proposal" that he was trying to push as an agreement just two days ago. He's a f*cking joke.
No there's not going to be a minor league season. There will be an extended fall league in AZ/FLA. The Sox taxi squad will be playing out of the stadium in Rosemont. I'm really interested to see how that is going to work.
Teams rebuild to take advantages in the draft with higher picks and larger pools of money to spend both in the draft and internatioanlly. Take that away and there is no incentive to rebuild.
There will be a season but first the owners have a few more dirty tricks up their sleeve to try and make their bad deal less bad. The fans are the ones paying the price.