Teixeira advises players to take restart proposal: Everyone's 'taking pay cuts'

Former New York Yankees star Mark Teixeira believes the Major League Baseball Players Association should accept the league's reported proposal to start the delayed 2020 campaign.

Teixeira commented Tuesday on the MLBPA's response, which stated Monday it won't agree to a 50-50 revenue plan.

"The problem is that you have people all over the world taking pay cuts, losing their jobs, losing their lives, frontline workers putting their lives at risk," Teixeira said on ESPN's "Get Up!" "These are unprecedented times. This is the one time that I would advocate for the players accepting a deal like this, a 50-50 split of revenues. It's not that crazy.

"If you really think about it and boil it down to what the players usually get from a revenue standpoint, it's actually lower than 50% of the baseball revenue for a full season. So, if I'm a player, I don't like it. But I'm going to do whatever I have to do to play and that means taking this deal."

The league and the MLBPA are reportedly meeting Tuesday. If the players sign off on the agreement, the 2020 season could potentially start in early July.