ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Everybody wants to play baseball. But as former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jason Motte explains, it's not that simple as fans, players and owners all agreeing they want baseball back and it suddenly restarts again.
The 2011 World Series champion explains, one of the main problems the league is facing is the timeline of whatever games may be played this season and how those will effect next season. If baseball's World Series isn't played until late November, then that gives some players less than three months to recoup and return ready to perform at Spring Training in 2021.
"I had no complaints about any time I ever played in the postseason," Motte says. "But it's like you go and you go, in that time you'd normally have off. Then you rest for maybe a week and it's like, 'Let's get back running, weightlifting, tossing a little bit.'"
But before anything begins, some finances have to be figured out between the MLB Players Association and MLB owners.
"I think MLB put the players in a bad spot," Former Cardinals pitcher Kyle McClellan says. "They beat them to the punch in making it public and saying that, 'Well the players are going to have to take a cut because we're doing this, that and the other.' They were the most aggressive in getting it out there to where the players are immediately on the defense."
