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With every meeting between both sides getting more and more crucial as the days tick down towards the originally scheduled opening day, you guessed it, nothing more has been accomplished. After less than an hour of negotiating, the latest meeting between MLB and the MLBPA ended with no progress, according to ESPN's Joon Lee.
In their latest proposal, MLB included removing a loss of draft pick penalty for going over the luxury tax threshold, and included a small increase to the limit in years 3, 4, and 5, with those numbers now at $216, $218, and $222 million, increasing from $214, $216, and $220 million.
MLB also plans to raise the minimum salary for players with two or more years of service time up to $725,000, up from $700,000, or they offered the MLBPA a salary floor of $630,000 for first year players while continuing with the old CBA system. It also included a raise in the pre-arbitration bonus pool money, going from $10 million to $15 million.
In an effort to help curb service time manipulation, a key issue on the MLBPA's side, MLB offered a chance of two draft picks being awarded to teams based on a star prospect staying on the active 26 man roster all season, and finishing as a finalist for awards in multiple seasons, with that changing from one draft pick being offered to teams.
With spring training scheduled to start on Monday and Tuesday for the 30 teams, there was an expectation of a formal announcement of the delay of 40 man roster players reporting to spring training, but there reportedly isn't going to be one from MLB. There could be some sort of announcement if spring training exhibition games get delayed.
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