Pause and threat grows without playing MLB

UNFORTUNATELY, the proposal presented by Major League Baseball did not convince, practically in anything, the Baseball Players Union, which extends the work stoppage, with the serious threat of cancellation of next season in the Majors. With two and a half months in stoppage negotiations, the situation is more overshadowed, when the preseason start date is scheduled for Wednesday of this week in Florida and Arizona.ROB MANFRED, commissioner of MLB, offered the representatives of baseball players a series of proposals. The most significant: allowing the universal designated hitter and raising rookie salaries from $570 to $630,000. The rest are tiny incentives to what Tony Clark’s pupils are asking for. The strongest: distributing global profits of the season, but the issue was not touched, because the owners do not want to distribute their millionaire fortunes, because they argue that they are the ones who risk their capital. THE HOUR-long MEETING in New York immediately dissolved when they learned that Manfred arrived practically empty-handed, nothing new. Under this situation, the threat is aggravated, not only to go through the start of the campaign agreed for March 31, but to close the doors of this industry, at least in this 2022. That’s how serious the picture looks. What a pity, there is no progress negociables.NO RESTA but to wait for a satisfactory arrangement, for the sake of baseball. Now that breaks are fashionable, hopefully baseball will not last for long. MEANWHILE, the focus will be on a situation of less impact. One of them, that the Chicago White Sox will be the first MLB organization to require all Minor League players and, of course, the first team, to submit booster shots. Major League Baseball had ruled that only Major League personnel, players, coaching staff, administrators and field personnel were the ones who would have to cover this order to combat covid-19. Now, it’s all even. When the sudden death of former major leaguer Jeremy Giambi was revealed, no one understood the causes at 47 years of age. Today it is known by the US authorities that the death was by suicide of a bullet in the chest in the house of his mother, in Cleremont, California.THE CASES OF star baseball players in the Majors, of inappropriate behavior, do not stop. One of them, Juan Encarnación, who was detained in the Dominican Republic since last September on accusations of sexual abuse against a minor, is released when the authorities do not find reliable evidence of his crime. We do not understand, in the case of the Quisqueyano, with two World Series rings, with the world of money they earned, bury their prestige and career for an adventure and, worse, against a teenager. And there are cases by the dozens.



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