2022 Major League Baseball Lockout

[Street Hunger]

ESPN.com this morning: "After a 16-hour day of meetings that stretched into early Tuesday morning, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association moved the deadline for a new collective bargaining agreement that would save regular-season games from being canceled to 5 p.m. ET Tuesday."

ESPN.com this afternoon: "MLBPA player leaders agreed unanimously not to accept MLB's final proposal, and there will be no deal on a new collective-bargaining agreement before MLB's 5 p.m. ET deadline."

[Street Hunger]

CNBC.com: "MLB's tax rule penalizes clubs that overspend on payroll. In the previous collective bargaining agreement, teams that exceeded the payroll threshold were taxed between 20% and 95% depending on repeat offenses. And the money collected from taxes is distributed to teams below the tax line. The luxury tax was $210 million, up from $195 million in 2017. A person with knowledge of the deal informed CNBC the league offered to increase the tax line to $220 million in 2022. That would increase to $230 million by 2026. MLBPA requested the league raise the tax line, which could allow more teams to spend on players without the payroll penalties. Also entering Tuesday's talks, MLB and the players union were also roughly $100,000 apart on minimum salaries. Last week they were more than $130,000 apart."

[BurningHammer]

Great time for MLS to take over a bit of baseball audiences.

[Lakers Legend#32]

Great time for MLS to take over a bit of baseball audiences.

[BurningHammer]

Yeah. Literally "a bit". Soccer does surpass ice hockey as the 4th most popular pro sports in the US though.

[Wally450]

Great time for MLS to take over a bit of baseball audiences.

MLS hasn't been that bad of a product recently. I'll look into it.

[warriorfan]

Great time for MLS to take over a bit of baseball audiences.