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Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: All locked out and ready to “no”

DRaysBay | February 8, 2022

Related Topics: Major League Baseball, Tampa Bay Rays, Marty Walsh, Major League Baseball Players Association, Minor League Baseball, David Laurila, Baltimore Orioles

MLB and the MLBPA met for 90 minutes last Tuesday. The players offer focused on the proposed pre-arb bonus pool and service time manipulation. After promising a counter offer, the owners instead requested assistance from a federal mediator. The MLBPA response to the mediation request was a very predictable “nope!” MLB’s response to the nope was also predictable.

But, in an interesting turn of events, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh — former mayor of Boston, long time union guy, and former head of the Building and Construction Trades Council — offered assistance.

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