MLBPA will soon make counteroffer to MLB to ‘end’ work stoppage

We are almost two months after the work stoppage imposed by the owners and MLB to the players after the joint contract ended on December 2, 2021, and at the moment there are no indications that there will be an agreement soon between both parties after the initial proposal launched by the owners and the commissioner Rob Manfred will not please the players and the union, the MLBPA.

With time running out, according to information from MLB Network’s Jon Heyman, the MLBPA will soon make a counter offer to the owners seeking a once-and-for-all deal, as Spring Training is originally scheduled to officially begin on February 26. date catchers and pitchers report to spring training complexes.

According to information from Jeff Passan, the owners’ initial offer to the players included, among other things, the universal designated hitter, playoffs expanded to 14 teams, among other salary arbitration arrangements and a draft lottery similar to the one held in the NBA, however, did not include any proposal that attacked the main problems that the MLBPA considers “vital”.

Among other things, the players are seeking an increase in the luxury tax and a salary fund for all teams, in addition to restructuring how the players’ service time works and avoiding its manipulation by the organizations to prevent them from reaching the agency earlier. free, among other things.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie at Al Bat in early 2018 and am in my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I’m a fan of the San Francisco Giants, number one defender of Barry Bonds, and hater of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to have the World Series taken from them for their cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy football, flag football, basketball, and just about any other game that involves a ball or ball. I’m also an amateur musician, a penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the world capital of shrimp, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived for a while in Australia; I survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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