JUPITER (Fla.) — Major League Baseball offered Wednesday a new offer to its players to raise the minimum salary by $10,000 per year.
MLB raised its minimum salary to $640,000 for this year. The figure will rise by $10,000 each season of a five year agreement.
Players asked for $775,000 in 2022 and $30,000 each season.
There was very little movement or even no movement regarding the luxury tax thresholds and rates or the size of pre-arbitration bonus pools
In the early hours of the evening, both sides met in small groups.
New York MetsPitcher Max ScherzerYankees pitcher Gerrit ColeThey were present at the negotiations on the third day of bargaining.
Free-agent pitcher Andrew MillerYankees reliever Zack BrittonOn the 84th Day of the lockout, they joined the negotiations and were along with the Mets shortstop Francisco LindorHouston catcher Jason Castro. These six people are part of the eight-member executive subcommittee of the union, which oversees collective bargaining.
Texas infielder Marcus SemienBoston pitcher James PaxtonThe other two members of the team, namely, were not present at the talks at Roger Dean Stadium. This is the vacant spring-training home of the Miami Marlins St. Louis Cardinals.
Scott Boras is the most powerful agent in baseball, representing Semien, Paxton and Cole as well as Scherzer, Paxton and Paxton.
The baseball season is in its ninth, and second-longest stoppage. There are less than seven days before they reach what management believes is a Monday deadline for a agreement that would allow it to resume as scheduled. Both sides remain unsure if they are willing to accept the timeframe. Players haven’t yet indicated whether or not they would accept it.
The union was informed that the teams have not decreased revenue sharing nor will they add new methods to players to accumulate service time. This is in response to players’ claims that it is necessary to prevent teams holding players back from allowing them to exercise their rights to free agency.