On Monday, MLB owners and players were far apart on most core economic issues, including the competitive-balance (luxury) tax, minimum salaries, arbitration eligibility, service-time manipulation, competitive integrity, and expanded playoffs.
After three months of fits and starts, incremental movement and scant progress, Major League Baseball and the Players Association met into the wee hours Tuesday morning with renewed hope of reaching a collective bargaining agreement.
By day, the players were still bracing for the possibility that MLB and the owners would follow through on their threat to begin snipping the 162-game schedule. A source confirmed that the Players Association was taking steps to organize alternate training sites in Florida and Arizona that could be accessed by locked-out players.
Since the owners locked the doors on Dec. 2, many players have expressed frustration with what they perceive to be an unwillingness to negotiate in good faith and raised doubts over whether some small-market owners want to play a full season. “Owners actions have made it clear all along that they have a set # of games where they still make profits/get TV money,” New York Yankees pitcher Jameson Taillon, who attended some of the bargaining sessions last week, tweeted Monday afternoon. “They don’t want to play. It’s sad that these are the guys who drive the direction and ‘future’ of our amazing sport.”
Other players chose to bring levity to social media. On Instagram, Bryce Harper superimposed a Yomiuri Giants uniform on a photo of himself and wrote, “Aye @yomiuri.giants you up? Got some time to kill. I know you got @borascorp number. Let’s talk.” Yankees slugger Joey Gallo tweeted a photo of his newly created LinkedIn page which included the following skills: striking out, hitting into the shift, and getting dressed weird.announced it would suspend billing for its Feb.
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