Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association will resume bargaining on core economics later this week.
The first substantive meeting between the two sides since the team owners implemented a lockout on Dec. 2 will be on Thursday and is expected to include an economic proposal, sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports.
They last discussed economics over a month ago just outside Dallas. After a series of bargaining sessions in the lead-up to the expiration of the previous collective bargaining agreement, the two sides remained far apart. Last time they talked about core economics, the league told the union that it would counter only if the union agreed to take the reserve system, revenue sharing and arbitration off the table.