Daily News | MLB says talks ‘deadlocked’ after players tie pace-of-play rules changes to luxury-tax gains
The Players Association essentially posed that question Sunday, as collective bargaining talks resumed in New York five days after MLB nixed a week’s worth of regular-season games — and with additional games likely on the chopping block this week.
“We were hoping to see some movement in our direction to give us additional flexibility and get a deal done quickly,” MLB spokesperson Glen Caplin said in a statement. “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 backwards. Simply put, we are deadlocked. We will try to figure out how to respond but nothing in this proposal makes it easy.
The sides remain far apart on most core economic issues, especially the luxury tax. The owners didn’t budge on the tax thresholds in either of their last two proposals, holding at $220 million for the first three years of the agreement, $224 million in 2025, and $230 million in 2026. The players last week proposed a $238 million mark in 2022 followed by $244 million, $250 million, $256 million, and $263 million.
“For months, we have told the league that players are more than willing to talk about the types of things that you, the league, think that we should be talking about with regard to on-field,” MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said last week. “That dialogue has been open and available as a part of the overarching conversation for a long time. The fact that it manifested itself in the last 72 hours is strange.
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