It is Saturday, March 5, four days after MLB announced that the first week of regular season games were canceled.
MLB and the MLBPA have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow, per reports from the national guys on Twitter. Ken Rosenthal says the union plans on providing “written responses to all the league’s most recent proposals.”
After spending most of the winter saying don’t worry, they’ll get this worked out in early February, and if not then, at least early enough that games won’t be canceled, I’ve now become pretty pessimistic about the state of things. Recent reports have indicated that the union is willing to agree to a 14 team playoff field — up from the 12 they had previously agreed to — in exchange for movement on the Competitive Balance Tax, which continues to be the most contentious issue.