After 94 days of strike for not having a new collective agreement and the first two series of the 2022 season cancelled, the owners of the teams in the MLB and the players union will have a new meeting.
According to Ken Rosenthal’s report of The Athletic, the players union and the MLB will meet on March 6 in order for the owners to deliver the written version of their proposals. Later, Evan Drellich, also from The Athleticclarified that the objective of the league is to formalize its proposals in a document and include new ones if there are any, since the owners have only given their position on them verbally.
Differences in proposals
The main differences in the proposals for the new collective agreement lie in the limits of the competitive balance tax and the pre-arbitration fund.
According to the report by Jeff Passan, of ESPN, players expect the competitive balance tax to be $238 million in the first year of the new deal, rising to $263 million in the fifth yearbut the league plans for me to start at 220 and go up to 230 starting in year three.
According to Passan, the players seek to obtain a pre-arbitration fund of 85 million dollars, but the owners do not want to exceed 50 million dollars. In addition, the players prefer to expand the postseason to 12 teams, but the owners of the teams want 14 to be invited to the playoffs.
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