Major League Baseball may be one step closer to saving the 2020 season. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that he extended another offer with an improved prorated pay to Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark during an in-person meeting on Wednesday. “At my request, Tony Clark and I met for several hours yesterday in Phoenix,” Manfred said in a statement. MLBPA, PLAYERS RESPOND AFTER ROB MANFRED PUTS 2020 SEASON IN DOUBT: 'TELL US WHEN AND WHERE'Manfred had said ahead of last week’s amateur draft that there would be a season. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you that I’m 100 percent certain that’s going to happen.”Major League Baseball players and their union chief responded to Manfred’s reversal on whether there was going to be a season at all amid a fight over salaries in a pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

Source: Fox News June 17, 2020 23:03 UTC