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MLB Cancels More Games As Negotiations Stall
Major League Baseball has suffered yet another delay, pushing back opening day.
The league has not yet succeeded in their attempts to ratify a new collective bargaining agreement.
“In a last-ditch effort to preserve a 162-game season, this week we have made good-faith proposals that address the specific concerns voiced by the MLBPA and would have allowed the players to return to the field immediately,” commissioner Rob Manfred wrote in a statement.
“The Clubs went to extraordinary lengths to meet the substantial demands of the MLBPA … Regrettably, after our second late-night bargaining session in a week, we remain without a deal.”
The players’ association and league have been negotiating on matters such as minimum salary and competitive balance tax thresholds.
MLB’s proposal, sources tell me and @Ken_Rosenthal:
• Luxury tax thresholds: 230, 232, 236, 240, 242⁰
• Prearb pool: 40m, flat over time
• Pool counts against CBT (1.33m per team)
•Minimum salary: 700, 715, 730, 750, 770(cont’d)
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) March 9, 2022
Reported stumbling blocks are due to MLB wanting to add a new surcharge level to the luxury tax.
The league plans to implement a third tier to “deter owners who have a mind to spend well above the pack’”.
A big issue, sources tell me and @Ken_Rosenthal: MLB wants to add a new surchage level to the luxury tax. Right now, there are three levels: base, first surcharge, and second surcharge. Now MLB wants to put in a third to deter owners who have a mind to spend well above the pack.
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) March 9, 2022
If an agreement is reached, the MLB opening day will unfold on April 14.
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