While a clear majority of Major League Baseball's owners wanted to play the fewest possible number of games in 2020, Bob Nutting and the Pirates were pushing for precisely the opposite.
A management source this week told me -- and a source in the players' union confirmed -- that Nutting had been vocally in favor of playing 82 games, the most proposed at any point in the contentious negotiations that eventually wound up with Rob Manfred forcibly implementing the 60-game schedule we'll now see. The lowest figure broached at any point was 48.
So, why was Nutting in favor while others were opposed?
Let's start here: It sure wasn't to save money.
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