At a meeting this afternoon, Major League Baseball made its final offer to the Players Association as part of ongoing collective negotiations. The meeting lasted less than an hour, he said. ESPN’s John Leewith the “impermanent” guys – a word he used for me, Tim Healy of Newsday Y Bob Nightingale de EE.UU. HOY. On the other hand, Michael Silverman de The Boston Globe Reports indicate the league is “confused by a frustrated MLBPA.”
Some details of the 130-page MLB proposal were shared by Ivan Drillic of Atletico Y Jesse Rogers de ESPN. There has been very little movement in the release of the bonus set, something that has been shown in previous haggling sessions. it was the league pre approved To the MLBPA’s proposal for a bonus fund, funded by Central Revenue, to reward pre-arbitration players. Although the proposal was approved, the Federation and the Federation remained far apart in size. The players initially proposed a total of $105 million, and the league is facing an offer of $10 million. The players later reduced their offers to $100 million, and the current owners increased their offer to $15 million.
There was also a slight modification to MLB’s proposal regarding competitive balance tax limits. Previously, the plan was capped at $214 million for 2022 to 2024, increasing to $216 million in 2025 and $220 million in 2026. Today’s proposal has maintained a figure of $214 million for 2022 and 2023, increasing to $216 million in 2024, then $218 million and $222 million in the final two years of the deal. On the other hand, the players were looking for the bottom line to be in the range of $245 million to $260 million over the five years covered by the deal.
The proposed tax rates for exceeding these limits have not changed since MLB’s last proposal, although the preliminary election offset was adjusted slightly. Under the previous proposal, teams that crossed the first threshold (spending less than $234 million out of a proposed tax threshold of $214 million) would have to forgo the third-round draft pick, though that was reduced to no draft penalty for the today’s program. However, teams would still pay the same 50 percent tax on every dollar spent in the range of $214 million to $234 million.
As for the league’s minimum salary, the league has made two proposals, one of which includes a flat amount of $630,000 for all players before arbitration. The second proposal involved a tiered system, with players earning $615,000 for up to one year of service, $650,000 for one to two years of service, and $725,000 for those with two to three years of service. This is just a slight adjustment to the previous suggestion where the levels were $615,000, $650K and $700K, meaning the last layer was the only one that changed.
Another proposed change was related to an earlier MLB proposal to address service time manipulation. Under the previous proposal, the top 100 customers selected for the team’s Opening Day roster could win an additional draft for their team by finishing in the top five in voting for a Grand Prize (MVP, Cy Young or Rookie of the Year) at one of the seasons eligible for judging. Under the league’s latest proposal, a team can have two selections if a player finishes in the top three in voting for multiple major awards. Rogers uses an example chris bryantas if the Cubs had kept Bryant on their roster through the 2015 and 2016 seasons, Chicago would have had additional picks for Bryant Awards success (2015 ROY, 2016 NL MVP).
In some of the smaller proposed changes, MLB has also proposed a five-time cap on the number of times a player can be selected each year. Currently, there is no limit to the number of times a player with shuttle options can move between adults and juniors, and teams have increasingly taken advantage of this suffix by constantly moving shooters back and forth from Triple-A to ensure that there are always new spacers. available for maneuvers in the game.
While a maximum of five options still allows teams great flexibility for promotions and demotions, it will at least reduce extreme situations, like when the Rays are called right and demoted. louis head 12 times last season. MLB’s proposal for a five-option ceiling comes attached to some little-known chain, Drillich tweets, which is related to the MLBPA. The union favors a limit on the number of options overall, but its proposal would limit the number of moves to four.
For the amateur draft, the league’s new proposal would reintroduce the “write and go” concept, in which teams could draft a player and send him to college prep for a year before signing him. Additionally, prospects who physically submit a blueprint will guarantee 75% of the value of their space and will not be able to physically “fail” it. This is apparently in response to rockero kumarwho was drafted by the Mets with the 10th overall pick last year, but the two sides couldn’t come to an agreement because the Mets were concerned about an elbow problem that came up in the post-draft physical. Bob Nightingale adds The proposal includes an additional $23 million for bonuses given to recruited players and international contracts.
If you want to be optimistic about all of this, you can argue that progress has been made and the league has made clear the elements that it considers negotiable and that they will not budge, thus laying the groundwork for players to come back with them. next counter. On the pessimistic side of things, the two are still far apart, and the changes proposed by the league in this latest offer are very modest, especially given the current time, which is the scheduled start of spring training. Before the lockdown, shooters and hunters were due to report this week, the games were due to start on February 26 and it’s hard to imagine a deal being done before then.
This inevitably leads to the question of whether or not the regular season will start as scheduled. It’s often speculated that a deal will need to be reached around March 1, so teams have a month to get the remaining off-season work done and for players to get proper spring training before opening day on March 31. of March. Evaluation Determine when the transaction must be effective to avoid such delays or cancellations. The exact specifications of this schedule are not known, though as Drelish points out, it’s unclear if the players will agree to this spending by the league. As for next steps, Nightengale said the MLBPA is expected to “submit counterproposals within a week.”
