On Tuesday, high-ranking representatives from Major League Baseball and the Players Association held a virtual meeting to begin official negotiations for a plan to bring the game back. Surely you have some questions. The Post’s Ken Davidoff has your answers.

Q: So Rob Manfred and his deputies made their first sales pitch to Tony Clark and his deputies. What happens next?

A: As The Post’s Joel Sherman reported, what typically transpires in this process is the PA folks listen to MLB’s presentation, hopefully remember to thank their partners/adversaries and take a short period of time to huddle before setting up another get-together at which they’ll issue a counterproposal.

Q: What sort of timetable are we looking at here?

A: In order to start the season by early July, as is the current ambition, they’d really have to firm up a plan by the end of May to get ready for a mid-June spring training. So they have about 2 ¹/₂ weeks to work this out if they really want to play as many games as possible.

Q: What will be the biggest hurdles to making a deal?

That’s easy. Ensuring safety in this unprecedented time and settling on player compensation. Remember, it’s not only the matter of ensuring the good health of the professional athletes in their 20s and 30s. It’s also protecting the coaches and support staff in their 60s and 70s, too, as well as folks like bus drivers and hotel employees who will have to function to make this plan viable. On the money issue, which was discussed only in broad terms Tuesday, the primary debate concerns the late-March agreement between the two sides that asserted players would receive a prorated portion of their 2020 salary if games were played. The bone of contention is whether that agreement covered the scenario of no fans being in the ballpark, which results in less revenue for everyone to enjoy, which — from the owners’ point of view — makes a prorate untenable.

Q: What figures to be more of a sticking point, the financial issues or the player-safety issues?

A: The financial issues, because 1) Neither side wants to give much in a scenario when both sides already are getting crushed; and 2) It’s more concrete than safety. Let’s face it, even the medical experts are still poking around in the dark some when it comes to best coronavirus-avoidance practices. But a dollar remains a dollar.

Q: If the two sides can find sufficient common ground on all fronts, how would that agreement be ratified?

A: The 30 owners would take a straight up vote with the majority prevailing. On the union’s side, most likely the 30 player representatives would vote, as well as the eight members of the PA’s executive committee, with the majority prevailing.

Q: What happens if the two sides can’t come to an agreement?

A: Then there would be no baseball for now. Yet keep in mind that nothing — well, besides government officials and their safety/health mandates — would stop them from revving up discussion for a regular season starting in August and going through October, with a November postseason.

Q: Wait, let’s go back to that mention of government officials and their safety/health mandates. Could these heated, high-stakes discussions turn out to be moot? Could this wind up being the baseball equivalent of a high school debate club?

A: You’d better believe it, sister. Manfred, Clark and their respective associates are mall cops in this scenario. While they can control the terms of their return, they cannot control their actual return. That will happen only with the blessings of federal, state and local officials. And given the unpredictability of COVID-19, it’s hardly a safe bet that we’ll have baseball in 2020 even if the players and owners can work through their differences.