New season in danger after players and team owners failed to reach a deal on a new labor contract.
. The average baseball player's salary is $4.1 million, down almost 5% from 2019, according to the Associated Press.A major obstacle to a deal has been team owners being unwilling to budge on key issues like sharing revenue from televised playoff games with players, said Johnny Ducking, a sports labor economist at North Carolina A&T State University. And owners are willing to stretch out negotiations much longer because they don't have a paycheck on the line, he said.
The contract talks have dragged on partly because it took both sides a while to return to the bargaining table. Ducking noted that owners and the players' union had a lengthy round of negotiations about if and when teams would play during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020-21. Those talks were periodically contentious, which Ducking said may be coloring the latest talks.
Manfred said Tuesday there are no scheduled upcoming days for both sides to restart negotiations. Representatives with the MLBPA are leaving Florida and flying back to New York, where the league is based, Manfred said. Based on player salaries last year, which totaled just over $3.8 billion, MLB players stand to lose a combined $20.
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