The state of play in Jupiter is slow, with modest progress and the owners threatening to cancel the scheduled start of the regular season.
The spokesman said the deadline had been communicated to the union before and was reiterated during Wednesday’s talks at Roger Dean Stadium. Representatives from both sides said they plan to work through the weekend to get a deal done, and both said missing the deadline won’t necessarily halt negotiations.But MLB is in control of the regular season schedule, so its deadline is one of the few parts of these negotiations that appears nonnegotiable.
Wednesday’s developments included MLB agreeing to raise its proposed minimum salary from $630,000 in 2022 to $640,000, growing by $10,000 each year over the life of the deal.That offer came a day after the union proposed to lower the number of draft picks in a newly-agreed-to lottery from eight to seven and to ask for 75 percent of players with two-plus years of service time qualify for arbitration instead of its previous position of 80 percent.
The players want that number around $245 million with lesser penalties — in other words, they want the CBT to function less as a salary cap than it would under the owners’ proposal — operating on a firmly held belief that raising spending at the top will increase salaries even for teams at the bottom.
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