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MLB Labor Agreement Coming Tomorrow?

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Maury Brown of Biz of Baseball has an update on the Collective Bargaining Agreement talks, via Twitter.  Brown notes that you shouldn’t hold your breath, but rumors are that MLB will announce a labor agreement tomorrow.  Brown also adds that there could be a compromise on the hard slotting issue with a luxury tax.

We’ve heard a lot of updates in the past few weeks about the holdup to a new deal being the owners and Bud Selig pushing for hard slotting in the draft.  We also heard that the union was pushing for the compensation system to be removed from Type A free agents.  A resolution would have to come quickly on the latter, as the deadline to offer arbitration to departing free agents is November 23rd.

The big issue for the Pirates revolves around the draft slotting.  Hard slotting would be a bad thing for the team.  A luxury tax wouldn’t be ideal, but is definitely preferred to hard slotting.

Tim Williams
Tim Williams
Tim is the owner, producer, editor, and lead writer of PiratesProspects.com. He has been running Pirates Prospects since 2009, becoming the first new media reporter and outlet covering the Pirates at the MLB level in 2011 and 2012. His work can also be found in Baseball America, where he has been a contributor since 2014 and the Pirates' correspondent since 2019.

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