A new meeting was held in New York between Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Players Association (MLBPA), which according to Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, did not bring great progress.
Both organizations met to resume the negotiations, in order to finish the employer strike started on December 2a meeting that would have lasted about 90 minutes.
Feinsand, announced that the MLBPA made a new proposal, in which lowered the figure for a pre-arbitration bonus fund from $85 million to $80 million, but the competitive balance tax was not changed.
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One of the big problems
The competitive balance tax threshold has been one of the most difficult points to discuss, and one where they are furthest from reaching an agreement, with the players asking for a threshold of 238 million dollars, rising to 263 million for the fifth year.
What the MLB is offering is 220 million, which would increase to 230 million for the last year of a new labor agreement, clearly a figure much lower than that sought by the MLBPA.
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“We were hoping to see some movement in our direction to give us additional flexibility so that we could reach a quick agreement. The Players Association decided to present us with a proposal that is worse than the one from Monday night and was not designed to move the process forward. In some cases, they even went back”, said Glen Caplin, spokesman for MLB.
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