Thursday’s meeting between Major League Baseball and MLB Players Association lasted just 15 short minutes, and with the clock ticking to start the 2022 season on time, still, no deal has been made. According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, the MLBPA back off its request for arbitration for all players with 2-plus years of service. Instead, players requested that 80 percent of players with two-plus years...
Updated Post – Feb. 4, 13:50 The Major League Baseball Players Association announced on Friday afternoon that they’ve officially declined the owners request for federal mediation. Here’s the full statement from the MLBPA: “Two months after implementing their lockout, and just two days after committing to the players that a counterproposal would be made, the owners refused...
Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association will meet in-person Tuesday to continue discussions about the collective bargaining agreement, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. It is the two sides’ first meeting this week, but it comes off the heels of MLB and the MLBPA having meetings on back-to-back days last week. The two sides discussed the core economic...
Despite the owners locking the players out, the Mets have kept active over the last three weeks with a manager search. That came to a head this week as the Mets dugout now has its leader. The Buck Stops In Flushing Last week, I predicted the Mets would settle on a manager hire by the end of this week, and sure enough, Steve Cohen took to Twitter–lack of punctuation an all–Saturday...
