Major League Baseball reacted angrily to the latest offer by locked-out players when bargaining resumed Sunday, accusing the union of backtracking and showing no sign of a breakthrough to get the derailed season back on track.
The squabbling sides talked for 95 minutes on the 95th day of the lockout, largely restating their positions to each other. Talks broke off Tuesday after nine days of negotiations in Jupiter, Florida, and Commissioner Rob Manfred canceled the first two series of the season for each team, a total of 91 games.
We were hoping to see movement in our direction to give us additional flexibility and get a deal done quickly, MLB spokesman Glen Caplin said. The players' association chose to come back to us with a proposal that was worse than Monday night and was not designed to move the process forward. On some issues, they even went backward. Simply put, we are deadlocked. We will try to figure out how to respond, but nothing in this proposal makes it easy.
Among the few areas with new proposals, players said a fast-track competition committee should include four union appointees, six management members, and one umpire. The group would consider rules changes for no earlier than 2023 covering a pitch clock of 14 seconds with no runners on base and 19 seconds with runners on, limiting defensive shifts and using larger bases, and it would be able to recommend changes during the offseason, with 45 days notice for implementation.
The union offered to increase the postseason from 10 teams to 12 but said they are willing to discuss management's desire for 14 if MLB would consider a ghost win in the first round, which management isn't interested in. The higher seeds would open the best-of-five playoff with a 1-0 series lead. As part of an overall agreement, players agreed to withdraw their proposed expansion of salary arbitration for players with at least two years of service but less than three.
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