EXPLAINED: War is not the solution for baseball s labor woes | Vintage Vibes

The good news is that Major League Baseball and the MLB Players’ Association met twice this week on consecutive days. And that’s pretty much all the good news from the bargaining table we can cover at this time.

There were a handful of interesting developments, some of which were more promising than others. The two sides are moving closer to setting higher minimum salaries for pre-arbitration players. On Monday, the union withdrew its request to allow certain players to reach free agency before they accrue six years of service time. On Tuesday, the league dropped its previous proposal to use a formula to get more money to all players with between two and three years of service time. The union had rejected that offer because it would have curbed the arbitration system instead of expanded it; the PA wants to make more players arbitration eligible after two years.