Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association spent more than 16 hours Monday into Tuesday negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. The goal was to get a deal by the end of the day in order to meet the league’s imposed Monday deadline to start the season on time.
They left without a new CBA, but the two sides made enough progress that MLB extended its deadline to 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to a league spokesperson. The owners and players will be back at the bargaining table Tuesday morning.
The specific proposals are fluid and are subject to change upon further bargaining, but MLB finally moved on some of the core economic issues that had stalled negotiations for months.