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“We offered to establish a minimum payroll for all clubs to meet for the first time in baseball history to allow the majority of players to reach free agency earlier through an age-based system that would eliminate any claims of service-time manipulation and to increase compensation for all young players, including increases in the minimum salary.” “We worked hard to find compromise while making the system even better for players,” Manfred said. By the end of the off-season, Manfred wrote the league would set a record for overall spending.
Manfred went on the attack, two minutes after the lockout was implemented, in an open letter to fans and placed all the blame on the players, claiming the MLBPA had been “unwilling to move from their starting position, compromise or collaborate on solutions.”Īddressing concerns that free agency is “broken,” Manfred pointed to the $1.7 billion handed out to free agents in November alone, smashing the previous record four times over. But that isn’t going to stop either party from trying to look like the lesser of two evils. Neither the owners nor the players will come out of this unscathed if the lockout drags well into the New Year and threatens the start of spring training, or worse, the regular season. Apparently, there wasn’t a whole lot to discuss. Neither side gave the impression a compromise will be found any time soon. One round of negotiations reportedly lasted 30 minutes, another just seven.
ET Thursday.Įven describing the talks as “brief” would be an overstatement. When one didn’t materialize by late Wednesday night, commissioner Rob Manfred took the drastic step of announcing a lockout starting, at 12:01 a.m.
The two sides held a series of meetings in Dallas this week to hammer out a new deal.
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players’ Association appear to be spending more time attempting to win the public relations’ battle than negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.