MLB, Locked-Out Players Meet Again, No Sign Of Breakthrough
Mar 6, 2022, 1:40 PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and locked-out players resumed negotiations after a four-day break, talking for 95 minutes on the 95th day of the work stoppage with still no sign of a breakthrough.
Players suggested the sides meet again Monday. The union gave a written response to the owners’ latest proposal.
Very little progress again today in MLB labor talks:
The union keeps their same luxury tax and minimum salary thresholds, and drops the pre-arbitration pool to $80 million instead of $85 million.
The expanded postseason stays at 12 teams, which both sides agreed to in Florida.— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) March 6, 2022
MLB negotiators left the meeting at the players’ association and said they would respond.
Trying to resolve baseball’s second-longest labor stoppage, the sides remain far apart on luxury tax, minimum salaries and the proposed bonus pool for pre-arbitration eligible players, and the union keeps rejecting management’s proposal for an international draft.