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Originally Posted by Brad K
The union requiring evidence on every player being suspended is completely reasonable.
Now, if the union is saying "you can't penalize players no matter what", which is what you are inferring, that is wrong.
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They may say that if there isn't a clear punishment in the bylaws. MLB Players Union is very strong. They cannot allow a punishment without taking it to court and clear and written rules because it would open the door to the commissioner being like Goodell. They may believe they deserve punishment, but their job is to protect all players and the way they do that is fight hard even when it isn't popular.
I would think it would be hard to pinpoint which players cheated and which ones did not and MLB doesn't want to turn this into a 3 year fight with the Union. The Union wouldn't say, 'you can't punish us.'. They are going to say, 'You can't punish THAT player without proof that THAT player cheated.' That could take way too long.