Once the collective bargaining agreement expired, the usual economic wrangling led to the breakup. The start of the 2022 season is at risk, even if there is time until March to find an agreement
After 26 years, Major League baseball returns to a halt due to a dispute between owners and players. At midnight in New York, six in the morning in Italy, the lockout that freezes the 2022 season took place, the ninth stop ever and the first since the 1994 strike that caused the World Series to be skipped for the first time, resolving only ‘next year. This time it is the owners who take the first step with the lockdown, the last of which (4 in all) dates back to 1990.
the dispute
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The expiration of the collective bargaining agreement and the bad relations between the owners and the players’ association had largely led to the presumption that this point would be reached. “It’s the best mechanism to ensure there can be a season in 2022,” said commissioner Rob Manfred. The words of Tony Clark, president of the Players Association are quite different: “It is a choice of the owners to put pressure on the players to give up what is rightfully theirs, abandoning a negotiation that was based on good faith.” The 4 lockouts precedents have not led to the cancellation of matches and the parties have until March to reach an agreement. Among the points of the dispute, the right of a player to become released after fewer years of service and the threshold beyond which the deductibles must pay the luxury tax (the players asked for it to be fixed at 245 million as a salary, the clubs did not go beyond 214) We remember that in the majors there is no salary cap.
market
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With yesterday’s midnight deadline on the horizon, most of the teams had moved very quickly on the market to the point where contracts worth $ 1.4 million had been signed within days. The most significant were those of pitcher Max Scherzer with the New York Mets (130 million dollars), Marcus Semien (175) and Corey Seager (325) with Rangers, Javy Baez (140) and Eduardo Rodriguez (77) with Detroit, Robby Ray (115) with Seattle and Kevin Gausman (110) with Toronto. But from now until the signing of the new collective agreement, no more contracts. Everything is blocked. The lockout even precludes players from using team training centers or having any kind of contact with managers. We’ll see if common sense or greed prevails in the end.
2 December – 08:34
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