MLB News: League Withdraws Request, Competitive Balance Tax & More
MLB and the MLBPA plan to meet everyday this week to work towards a new CBA. On Monday, the two sides met and predictably did not complete a new CBA. On the bright side, the meeting did last longer than 15 minutes. Which is a marked improvement over recent bargaining sessions.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that MLB backed away from capping the number of minor league players a team is allowed to have under contract.
MLB today withdrew its request of the union to control — and potentially reduce — the number of minor league jobs, as @EvanDrellich said. The league could try to unilaterally going forward, but it won't do so in 2022 and at the moment does not have plans to pursue it in 2023.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 22, 2022
The Athletic’s Evan Drellich stated that the league increased it’s proposed pre-arbitration bonus pool. However, MLB’s proposal still isn’t in the same zip code as the MLBPA’s proposal.
The sides plan to meet again tomorrow. On MLB’s prearbitration bonus pool: the $20 million would go to 30 players. Union’s latest proposal distributed it to 150 players (at $115 million)
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) February 21, 2022
One hot topic wasn’t addressed – the competitive balance tax.
No revised CBT proposal today. That’s an area of major importance to both sides.
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) February 21, 2022
MLB’s competitive balance tax was instituted to prevent runaway spending by large market teams. Instead, it’s been treated as a salary cap. As one can imagine, the players detest putting a ceiling on their earning power.
There’s plenty of meat on the bone on a new CBA. If somehow a deal can be reached between MLB and the MLBPA by the end of this week, Opening Day just might start on time.
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