Union responds to MLB in latest CBA meeting
Source: MLB.com
Less than one week after Major League Baseball made proposals with the hope of creating a path toward a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, the MLB Players Association countered Tuesday with minimal movement on a number of issues.
Per sources, the MLBPA offered to reduce its figure for a pre-arbitration bonus pool from $105 million to $100 million. The league had offered to create a $10 million pool -- one which would reward the top performers among the group of pre-arbitration players -- funded by central baseball, using the framework that had initially been presented by the MLBPA.
MLB had presented the pre-arbitration bonus pool proposal last week in an effort to create a bridge toward a deal, but Tuesday's response resulted in minimal movement on the issue.
Under the league's proposal, National League Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes would have earned $2.34 million last season instead of $608,000, while American League MVP runner-up Vladimir Guerrero Jr. would have seen an increase from $635,400 to $1.843 million. Other pre-arbitration players including Austin Riley, Jonathan India and Randy Arozarena would have seen their salaries jump more than 200 percent in 2021.
Read more: https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mlbpa-continue-negotiations
Looks like it's unlikely the lockout will wrap up real soon. But at least they're talking.
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