{"id":1336061,"date":"2022-02-24T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1336061"},"modified":"2022-02-24T07:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T12:56:54","slug":"mlb-to-union-monday-deadline-for-deal-or-no-162-game-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mlb-to-union-monday-deadline-for-deal-or-no-162-game-season\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB to Union: Monday Deadline for Deal or No 162-Game Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmlb-to-union-monday-deadline-for-deal-or-no-162-game-season%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1336061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ken-davidoff.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Ken Davidoff\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ken-davidoff.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/ken-davidoff.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>JUPITER, Fla. \u2014 National Renewal Day came early for Major League Baseball in 2022. Those frisky owners and players just couldn\u2019t wait until May 4, the actual holiday (thanks, Google), to renew their threats against one another.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, at the unsubtly named Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium, the owners responded to the players\u2019 latest lame counteroffer with a lame counteroffer of their own. Sometime amid the chatter, though, the owners reiterated a statement they first made at their Feb. 12 bargaining session in Manhattan: If they don\u2019t get this deal done by Monday, then <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/22\/mlb-labor-negotiations-remain-on-doomsday-path\/\">there won\u2019t be a 162-game season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA deadline is a deadline,\u201d an MLB spokesman emphasized. \u201cMissed games are missed games. Salary will not be paid for those games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MLBPA, according to a source, responded with a repeated counter-vow of sorts: If the players don\u2019t get paid for a full season in 2022, they will not sign off on an expanded postseason in the Basic Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>This exchange sequel occurred as a result of union scuttlebutt that next Monday need not be the deadline, that alternate avenues exist, be that via holding spring training for less than four weeks or shoehorning some doubleheaders into the schedule, to pull off 162 contests. The owners naturally dislike twin-bills for revenue reasons, and they contend that the three-week \u201csummer camp\u201d held in 2020, after the COVID-19 shutdown, proved too short, as exemplified by the flurry of injuries that followed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if the owners consistently prioritized the players\u2019 health, they wouldn\u2019t view the implementation of the universal designated hitter as a financial concession. They\u2019d see it as the smartest way to keep their pitchers (by and large their most prized assets) healthy by keeping them away from hitting and baserunning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Max-Scherzer.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Max-Scherzer.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Max Scherzer arrives for MLB labor talks at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla.\" class=\"wp-image-21314315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Max-Scherzer.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Max-Scherzer.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Max-Scherzer.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Max-Scherzer.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Max Scherzer arrives for MLB labor talks at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The players\u2019 parry concerning the expanded postseason feels like a proposition to shoot one\u2019s own foot. Even within the players\u2019 camp, there is debate over the merits and drawbacks of allowing more clubs into the playoff party. What\u2019s indisputable is the increased revenue that would generate, and for all of the concerns about watering down October, a look at the other major sports shows customers love it when their club, no matter how mediocre, puts itself in the tournament mix.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>In any case, five days of bargaining remain before that deadline passes, and an expectation exists that the two sides will meet here every day until then. If the talks continue at their current languid pace, then we won\u2019t see anything resembling a deal.<\/p>\n<p>With the players welcoming three reinforcements \u2014 Yankees Zack Britton and Gerrit Cole and free agent Andrew Miller \u2014 to their group as the Reds\u2019 Sonny Gray left, the two sides met in full for about an hour and 40 minutes, during which the owners raised their minimum-salary offer from $630,000 to $640,000 for 2022, with an increase of $10,000 each season through 2026.<\/p>\n<p>After each side caucused for more than two hours, one more smaller breakout session occurred, with Miller, new Met Max Scherzer and the PA\u2019s senior director, Bruce Meyer, joining MLB\u2019s deputy commissioner, Dan Halem, and Rockies CEO Dick Monfort for about a half-hour. Talks were said to be civil, if vigorous.<\/p>\n<p>While a move in the right direction, MLBs minimum-salary uptick didn\u2019t dramatically alter the vibe of inertia surrounding these talks. Nothing will, really, until we see someone blink on the competitive-balance tax, over which the owners have drawn a hard line, implementing harsher penalties for surpassing the threshold (which barely increase in their package), while the players are aiming sky-high, with a $31 differential, $245 million versus $214 million, just for 2022, which grows larger from there.<\/p>\n<p>Those who want the season to start on time, therefore, should root against renewals, replays and rewinds and hope for some strikingly new material. If that doesn\u2019t emerge soon, then another holiday, Opening Day, will come later, not earlier, than it reads on the calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUPITER, Fla. \u2014 National Renewal Day came early for Major League Baseball in 2022. Those frisky owners and players just couldn\u2019t wait until<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}