MANFRED ‘NOT CONFIDENT’ THERE WILL BE BASEBALL IN 2020

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred says he's "not confident" there will be a 2020 baseball season and that "as long as there's no dialogue" with the MLB Players Association, "that real risk is going to continue."

Manfred walked back comments he made to ESPN last week, when he said "unequivocally we are going to play Major League Baseball this year" and pegged the likelihood at "100 percent."

The chance that there will be no season increased substantially Monday when the commissioner's office told the players' association it will not proceed with a schedule unless the union waives its right to claim management violated a March agreement between the feuding sides.