Read a letter from the Commissioner: https://t.co/P4gRGSlfsu pic.twitter.com/zI40uGLTni
— MLB (@MLB) December 2, 2021
Statement from the Major League Baseball Players Association: pic.twitter.com/34uIGf762W
— MLBPA Communications (@MLBPA_News) December 2, 2021
Player contingent includes Scherzer, Castro, Lindor, Taillon, Nimmo, Goldschmidt, Suter, Merrifield, Rogers, Gray pic.twitter.com/2pUain8Fg0
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) February 21, 2022
Meeting breaking up. Among MLB proposals today: MLB raised its prearbitration bonus pool $5 million, to $20 million. Still a very large gap compared to players’ proposal. MLB also proposed to allow one more draft pick to be determined by lottery, now top 4. Players had proposed 8
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) February 21, 2022
Meeting breaking up. Among MLB proposals today: MLB raised its prearbitration bonus pool $5 million, to $20 million. Still a very large gap compared to players’ proposal. MLB also proposed to allow one more draft pick to be determined by lottery, now top 4. Players had proposed 8
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) February 21, 2022
A Major League Baseball spokesperson said tonight that if a deal is not in place by Feb. 28, regular season games will be canceled. “A deadline is a deadline,” the spokesperson said. Player pay would not be recouped, nor would those games be rescheduled, the spokesperson said.
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) February 23, 2022
Ok. I will get bombarded with stats about payroll vs. wins, but the truth is only one small-revenue team (the Royals) has won a title in baseball in the last 30 years. Teams with massive local TV revenue have an unfair advantage. That is a broken system. (1)
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
David Glass understood this predicament and fought hard for a level playing field during the ‘94 work stoppage. His efforts fell through because the big-revenue owners back then were short sighted, not realizing, as the NFL did, that when the tide goes up, all boats go up. (3)
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
Mr. K would have thought a “luxury tax” on the big markets would be laughable. That tax to those owners is simply the cost of business, trying to buy a title. A hard ceiling, a hard floor, and serious TV revenue sharing is the only answer for competitive balance.
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
That is the beauty of the NFL — we almost never talk about payroll, other than what every team’s capologists have to do. It is a level playing field. The Chiefs, Packers, Bengals, Steelers and Bucs can stick it to the Jets and Giants and Bears and Cowboys every year.
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
Ok. I will get bombarded with stats about payroll vs. wins, but the truth is only one small-revenue team (the Royals) has won a title in baseball in the last 30 years. Teams with massive local TV revenue have an unfair advantage. That is a broken system. (1)
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
David Glass understood this predicament and fought hard for a level playing field during the ‘94 work stoppage. His efforts fell through because the big-revenue owners back then were short sighted, not realizing, as the NFL did, that when the tide goes up, all boats go up. (3)
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
Mr. K would have thought a “luxury tax” on the big markets would be laughable. That tax to those owners is simply the cost of business, trying to buy a title. A hard ceiling, a hard floor, and serious TV revenue sharing is the only answer for competitive balance.
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
That is the beauty of the NFL — we almost never talk about payroll, other than what every team’s capologists have to do. It is a level playing field. The Chiefs, Packers, Bengals, Steelers and Bucs can stick it to the Jets and Giants and Bears and Cowboys every year.
— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) February 24, 2022
Meetings are done. Progress was minimal. There are four days left for MLB and the MLBPA to get a new labor deal or regular-season games are going to be canceled. They've had four days to move and there's been next to nothing -- just incremental. And that's that.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 24, 2022