MlB's postponement of the new season seems to have been anticipated a year ago, and now, the bad news has almost been confirmed, and on Tuesday afternoon local time, the negotiations between labor and management failed to reach an agreement again, and the spring training was almost certain to be postponed.
The original spring training report will begin on February 14, in this case it will certainly not be carried out on time, and in the case of the arrest cannot be reported on time, the overall spring training two weeks later will certainly not be carried out on time.
Under normal circumstances, a player will be controlled by the team for at least 6-7 years before qualifying for free agent, and the union points out that players who want to get the top five votes for rookie king votes, the top three votes for the best backup pitchers and the first and second teams can have one less than one year of control. In addition, the union has also proposed that WAR's top ten wild players and top 30 pitchers in their respective positions can also be exempted for one year, but the league's proposals are the top 7 and top 20.
These are just a few of the minutiae, unions and leagues still have major differences on many issues, player salaries have fallen for four consecutive years, and even those who don't understand it anymore know that there was a big problem with the last collective bargaining agreement compared to the growing salaries of players in other leagues.
A key point is the competitive balance tax (the luxury tax threshold), which was $210 million last season, the league has proposed a slow increase to 214 million next season, and faces more severe penalties after exceeding the limit, and the union proposal is 245 million, and there seems to be no need for negotiation between the two sides.
In terms of the minimum wage, the union's proposal was $775,000, the union's previous proposal was 600,000, and in the new talks, the alliance only agreed to raise this figure slightly to 615,000, and the alliance also withdrew the previously improved Super 2 proposal. In addition, the two sides still failed to reach an agreement on the proposal for the income-sharing plan of the big market team to the small market team, and the union believed that the small market team profited too much in the income sharing plan, which made them develop the habit of not spending money.
The two sides talked again after more than 40 days and made little substantial progress, and in order to avoid the team's control period of the top rookie, the union gave the proposal that if the rookie won some awards in the first three years, the team could get the draft pick. For those teams that lie flat and get high draft picks, the union's proposal is to conduct a lotto draw similar to the NBA in the bottom eight every year, and the team cannot participate in the lottery for three consecutive years, the league's counter-offer in this regard is the first three draws, and the two sides are still a long way from a new labor agreement.
(Text/Geng Haoyang)