When baseball players agreed a decade ago to restraints on signing bonuses for draft picks, then union head Michael Weiner said matters could be revisted if the provisions didn't work to players' satisfaction.
FILE - This Oct. 25, 2011, file photo, shows the outfield ivy and iconic manual scoreboard at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Getting a side to give back something it gained previously in collective bargaining can lead to difficult negotiations, which is why Major League Baseball has its first work stoppage in 26 years.
Free agency has been the central issue in baseball collective bargaining for a half-century, joined by the luxury taxes, salary arbitration and cost controls on amateur spending. The players’ association, claiming teams deliberately have held back prospects to delay their eventual eligibility by a year , proposed that for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 offseasons it become six years of service or five years of service and age 30.5, whichever comes earlier. For the 2025-26 offseason and later, eligibility would become six years of service or five years of service and age 29.5, whichever comes earlier.
MLB would keep the existing provision or change eligibility to age 29.5 rather than six years, which it has been since 1976. Rules were strengthened in the 2002 agreement, with a tax starting at 17.5% on payrolls above $117 million in 2003. Thresholds and rates have been raised, with this year’s threshold at $210 million and rates of 20% for a first time over, 30% for a second in a row and 50% for third or more.
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