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Labor Talks Resume With MLB Deadline Looming

Feb 24, 2022, 2:16 PM

ORLANDO, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 10: Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred answers questions during an MLB owner's meeting at the Waldorf Astoria on February 10, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Manfred addressed the ongoing lockout of players, which owners put in place after the league's collective bargaining agreement ended on December 1, 2021.

BY RONALD BLUM AP BASEBALL WRITER

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner, Houston pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. and Miami infielder Miguel Rojas have joined baseball negotiations in Florida with Major League Baseball’s deadline looming for a labor deal to salvage opening day and a 162-game season.

MLB says the Feb. 28 deadline is a real deadline. If there’s no deal in place by then, games would be canceled and player pay lost, they say.

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) February 23, 2022

The sides met for the fourth straight day at Roger Dean Stadium, the idle spring training home of the Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Players and teams remain far apart on luxury tax thresholds, salary arbitration eligibility, revenue sharing and the size of a pool of money that would go to pre-arbitration players.