Jeff Passan reports that MLB intends to offer players a shorter season with full prorated salaries.

Major League Baseball intends to propose a shorter season in which the league would pay players a full prorated share of their salaries, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

The league believes the late March agreement allows it to set the schedule, and that this would fulfill players’ pro rata desire.

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We will once again wait to see if this is indeed proposed to the players. The proposal from the players indicated they are open to deferred salaries. If this proposal is real, the owners at least show an indication they are willing to pay pro-rated salaries. Fifty games seems like an absurdly low number, but please follow the link to on the MLBPA proposal to see Gene Orza’s comments on Rob Manfred manipulating the players to give him something for nothing, in this case more games.

The owners appear to want to pay the players a fixed amount of money, or at least a fix amount of revenue. I still think we’ll end up with a season with more than 82 games, but with salaries paid up to 50% of revenue with the rest of the prorated money deferred to future years.