Does Major League Baseball have a 1986 Mets-type rally in it?
. Only three players – new Met Max Scherzer, new Ranger Marcus Semien and free agent Andrew Miller – came to the ballpark, and none of them participated directly in conversations, instead participating in the caucuses. The same went for the ownership contingent; the Yankees’ Hal Steinbrener, the Rockies’ Dick Monfort, the Padres’ Ron Fowler and the Rangers’ Ray Davis all were on site, as was commissioner Rob Manfred, yet stayed in their clubhouse, so to speak.
No formal proposals were exchanged, which means that technically, they must execute considerable work on nearly every core economic issue, including the competitive-balance tax, the minimum salary, the pre-arbitration bonus pool, mitigating service-time manipulation, the draft lottery, the number of teams in the expanded playoffs and an international draft as well as arbitration and revenue-sharing.
Rob Manfred and Tony Clark stayed out of Sunday’s negotiations, leaving it to Bruce Meyer and Dan Halem .So how will Monday work? Keep in mind that this is a Play-Doh deadline, subject to reshaping and manipulation, rather than the collectively-bargained times we see attached to processes like arbitration filing or finalizing your 40-man roster. There is no specific time, and nothing would prevent the owners from extending it by a day if they see considerable movement.
Keep in mind, too, that while the owners possess the right to start canceling games and docking pay, there won’t be a return to action without an agreement on player pay for 2022. As steadfastly as the owners purport to oppose doubleheaders to make up for lost time, you can’t rule those out until the deal is done.
So will the owners show up Monday ready to party like it’s 1986? Are they in it to win it , or just to blow off April? It’s nearly pencils down, and it’s on the owners to not blow this whole thing up.
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