Padres News: MLB Sends New Proposal for 76-game 2020 season

The latest proposal from MLB and the owners would give us at least 76 San Diego Padres games during the 2020 season with hopes for more in an expanded playoff.

As we await the return of San Diego Padres baseball and watch the drama unfold between the players and owners, we now have a new proposal on the table.

Karl Ravech was the first to report the new proposal from the league in a tweet.

As you can gather from the tweet, the latest proposal calls for a 76-game regular season that would finish on September 27 so that the postseason still ends in October.

Maybe the biggest thing of note in this proposal is that there will be no draft pick compensation for signing a player in the offseason.

That has held back several free agents in the past from signing big deals and they’ll no longer have that baggage attached to them.

I’m not going to act like I understand how the pro-rated pay will work. On the surface it sounds like a step forward that the owners are will to give 75 percent pro-rated salaries as players have been asking for 100.

But this tweet from Mike Axisa of CBS Sports points out that’s it not much different from other proposals.

Again, I’m not going to try and act like understand how all of that works, but if true, that’s kind of a lazy effort from the owners.

Bob Nightengale is already reported that the MLBPA considers the lastest proposal a “step backwards.”

That’s really disappointing to hear and it’s getting harder and harder as a fan not to get frustrated at both sides.

Hopefully this will latest proposal will at least get the two sides on the right track towards finding a better middle ground.

One thing is for sure, the longer they wait, the more fans they lose and the less amount of baseball we’ll see in 2020.