The major leagues were all-stopped.
MLB Network reporter Jon Heyman reported on the 2nd,Major league owners unanimously decided to lockout through a vote.This measure will come into effect tomorrow and it is unknown when it will be lifted.
Major League Baseball owners and players unions met again on the same day in Irving, Texas, but negotiations broke down after seven minutes.The deadline for the preparation of a new labor-management collective agreement (CBA) is on the same day.
It is the fourth time in history that club owners have declared a lockout.The first lockout was on February 26, 1973.At this time, after negotiating between the two sides, the two sides agreed to adjust their annual salary and establish a player pension system,which was resolved within 18 days.
Lockout occurred again during the spring camp in March 1976, but both labor and management agreed with the perception that the regular season should start normally, and the camp resumed after 17 days, and a new CBA was derived in July during the season.In 1990, the lockout was held for 32 days from February to March,and ended with an agreement on a new agreement to expand the qualifications for salary adjustment and increase the minimum wage.From late 1994 to April 1995, the major league suspension was not a lockout,but a strike by the players union.
All major league clubs are now officially suspended.FA negotiations are no longer possible, and players cannot use the club's facilities.Major free agents such as Freddie Freeman, carlos Correa, and Yusei Kikuchi,who are currently in contract negotiations, can resume after the lockout is lifted.
The two sides have waged a tug-of-war over the past 10 months over luxury tax, free agent service time,salary adjustment,tanking,postseason expansion,introduction of the National League designated hitter system, and minimum wage increase, but the total introduction of the designated hitter system and minimum wage increase, They have been fighting sharply on major issues other than the expansion of the postseason.Most of the problems are related to money.Among them, FA service time and tanking are the key issues.
Regarding service time, clubs have suggested that the free agent be granted six full-time seasons or when they turns 29.5, but the union insisted on reducing the qualification period to five seasons. The so-called tanking of selling top-tier players ahead of free agents and filling them with prospects is a problem related to payroll and ranking competitiveness. The union is advocating for a device to prevent tanking.
However, the prevailing view is that both sides will somehow prepare a new CBA before next year's spring camp.He said that he never wants a labor-management dispute, the last of which was 1995. Also because of revenue. ESPN predicted that there is four months left until next year's regular season, so there is a lot of possibility of a settlement.
Clubs do not want to lose sales, so I think the spring camp will be held normally.
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