The Major League Baseball Players Association made it clear to Major League Baseball owners that additional negotiations on a 2020 season would be pointless.
The players told the owners to order a return to work which would likely land the two sides in a lengthy litigation process and extended labor struggles.
However, in the short-term, the move could bring M-L-B back for the summer, with likely a 50 game season, rather than the 82 proposed by the league initially.
Meanwhile, the two-day dead period just ended when the Milwaukee Brewers announced the signing of two undrafted free agents.
Infielder Drew Smith from Grand Canyon University is a solid hitting prospect with a lot of power, while pitcher T-J Shook from South Carolina is being projected as a reliever.
Smith pounded 29 home runs in two years at the junior college level, then nine more for Grand Canyon before coronavirus shut things down.
Shook had an earned run average of 3.04 for the Gamecocks, with 92 strikeouts in 74 innings. This spring college batters were hitting just .107 off the righthander.
