MLB: Strike out the work stoppage? Meeting with the MLBPA would already have day and month

Last week, both famous journalists Jeff Passan of ESPN and Evan Drellich of The Athletic reported that Major League Baseball had been preparing basic financial proposals to present to the MLB Players Association -MLBPA-. Both Passan and Drellich suggested that this could start collective bargaining negotiations later this January.

Popular USA Today reporter Bob Nightengale adds a bit more specificity to that timeline, writing this Monday morning that the league plans to make its proposal. “Within the next two weeks”:

Every time the league puts their offer on the table, that will serve as the first notable development in CB conversationsA since MLB instituted a lockout in the early hours of the morning of December 2.

Since then, the parties have met a couple of times regarding issues outside the core of the central economy, but there has been no discussion on the most contentious issues since the start of the lockout.

The league and union submitted basic financial proposals before the expiration of the previous CBA, but neither party responded favorably to the other’s offers. That culminated in a seven-minute trading session on December 1. Both parties have expressed their willingness to come back to the table, but have been on hold while the union waited for the league to come up with a new offer.

Resuming discussions on the core economy around January 21 (two Fridays within) would not give the parties much time to close the gap without threatening the exhibition game.

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The first spring training games are scheduled for February 26, and it will certainly take a few weeks between signing a new CBA and the start of the game for players to report, remove any COVID-19 protocols that may exist, and increase physical activity.

Rafael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, the LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), signings of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even a friendly NBA 10 years ago, but I carry baseball in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I came to El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services in Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and within days, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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