Major League Baseball owners and the Player’s Association are continuing to negotiate Tuesday, with another crucial deadline looming.
The union was given a Tuesday night deadline to accept one of their options in a new proposal that would reinstate the 162-game season, with full pay, after negotiations Monday in New York. If a deal doesn’t happen, another week of regular-season games would be cancelled with players forfeiting pay.
Tuesday’s deadline is a repeat of what happened last week, where owners and the union met for hours on end with no deal being struck, followed by Commissioner Rob Manfred announcing the first week of regular season games was cancelled.
However, the option to make those games up has been put back on the table by the owners as they try to broker a deal.
Bob Nightengale of USA Today was reporting that if the two sides don’t reach an agreement by Tuesday evening, the deadline likely would be extended by a day. That is only if significant progress is made during their talks Tuesday. Talks this past Sunday went nowhere and MLB declared they were at a “stalemate”.
The major roadblocks in striking a new labor agreement have been mainly financial, with luxury tax, minimum salaries, and arbitration dollars as sticking points. There are also several rule changes, like infield shifts, and the number of playoff teams yet to be fully agreed on.
The baseball season had been scheduled to begin March 21st. If MLB holds to their cancellation of the first week of the season, it would begin on Thursday, April 7th.
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