Daily News | Baseball is back: Players and MLB agree to new CBA; frenzy of transactions is next
One day after talks stalled and commissioner Rob Manfred lopped more games off the schedule, 99 days after the owners locked out the players, and with the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee threatening the league’s antitrust exemption, Major League Baseball and the Players Association shook hands Thursday on a collective bargaining agreement that will allow for a 162-game season in 2022.
Get ready for a frenzy of transactions, as teams cram three months of offseason activity into about three weeks. A few hundred free agents are unsigned, including Carlos Correa, Freddie Freeman and Kris Bryant. Trades that were brewing before the lockout will percolate again. The Phillies need two outfielders, a few late-inning relievers, and starting-rotation depth. Other teams have similarly long to-do lists.
The owners want it and tried this week to attach it to their agreement to drop draft-pick compensation for free agents who receive a qualifying offer. The players rejected the draft in multiple previous proposals and were opposed to it again. In fact, it has been a contested topic dating to the 2016 CBA negotiation.
When the week began, an agreement seemed improbable. But the owners made meaningful steps toward the players on core economic issues, including the linchpin item of the luxury tax, during a 17-hour negotiation Tuesday that spilled into the wee hours Wednesday. But MLB waited 43 days to re-engage the players on core economics. Once talks resumed, they were brief and intermittent. The sides held meetings on back-to-back days only once until the nine-day summit in Jupiter, Fla., that began on Feb. 21, nearly a week after pitchers and catchers had been scheduled to report to spring training.
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