SI Insider: MLBPA Makes it Clear How Important Their Right to A Grievance Is To Them
The Major League Baseball Players Association and the owners are nearing a deal to begin the 2020 MLB season but as SI senior writer Tom Verducci reports, "Major League Baseball players were willing to forego their right to file a grievance against the owners to play a 70-game schedule, but not 60 games." The right to a grievance was imperative to the players. To the point that they were willing to forego extra benefits that were on the table in the owners' last 60-game proposal.
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