It’s time for owners and players to step up to the plate … together.
This is a huge opportunity for the game of baseball to take a huge leap forward and show leadership. We are in unprecedented times. pic.twitter.com/F8iMqTVyby
— Alex Rodriguez (@AROD) May 16, 2020
“Players want to play. Fans want to watch,” Rodriguez said in a video posted to Twitter. “And at the end of the day, if you don’t play today, you don’t win tomorrow, because hopefully, we don’t have another situation like this. This is like beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. I just urge the players and owners to think collectively. If there’s $100 in the pie, like the NBA, players take $50, owners take $50. And we give it to the fans. We thank the fans of baseball.”
“It is the people’s comfort food and people are starving,” Rodriguez said of baseball. “And I just don’t want to see this great game — people fighting, billionaires fighting with millionaires. This has nothing to do with the past. This has nothing to do with the (1994, revenue sharing-induced) strike. This is actually when the owners and players are aligned and we want the same thing. We want to save baseball. We want to play baseball.”
Rodriguez is MLB’s highest-paid player of all-time.
In 20 seasons, he made $455 million, a number he likely would not have reached if there was a revenue share like this in place.
The players, who have also voiced their health concerns, would receive four percent of their 2020 salaries in exchange for service time if the season were canceled.
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