SFGiants veteran shortstop Brandon Crawford speaks out about MLB canceling games: 'It's the last thing we want to happen. But we're also not going to be pressured and bullied into taking an unfair deal.' [Photo: Getty Images]
"Keep in mind that MLB didn't negotiate with us for almost two months after locking us out. Then they give us a"deadline," like the union is the one holding everything up. It's been their agenda for the past year to try to put as much pressure as possible and threaten us of missing games, and then turn around and put the blame on us."
The first round of cancellations means the Giants are ironically now in line for a rare opening day at Oracle Park, but it's unclear if the two sides will gain enough traction to even guarantee the Giants can play April 8 against the Miami Marlins. Manfred said the league determined that the earliest that spring training could start at this point would be March 8, which led to the cancellation of games. Any further delays would just keep chipping away at the schedule, which MLB says is inflexible because of all the interleague games involved.
The Giants host the Marlins and Padres before heading back out for a long road trip to Cleveland, New York and Washington D.C., but there was not much optimism Tuesday that any of those games would take place. The sides are far apart on the key financial issues -- the CBT threshold, a pool of money for pre-arbitration players, and the minimum salary -- and some people within the Giants organization were preparing to miss at least half of April.
For the time being, those minor league practices are the closest thing fans have to Giants baseball. It's a situation perhaps best summed up by the player who was supposed to start March 31 at Petco Park:
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