4:26 PM ET MLBPA player leaders agreed unanimously not to accept MLB’s final proposal, and there was no deal on a new collective bargaining agreement before MLB’s 5 p.m. ET deadline. MLB had threatened to cancel its March 31 Opening Day without a new deal and commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed that Tuesday afternoon. “The calendar
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5:08 PM ET No deal. The MLB lockout continues. Major League Baseball has announced the delay of the 2022 regular season after the MLBPA player leaders agreed unanimously not to accept MLB’s final proposal before the league’s 5 p.m. ET deadline. What’s next? Will Opening Day really be pushed back? Why can’t the owners and
7:17 PM ET Gone is Opening Day — and there could be more Major League Baseball regular-season games lost for the first time in almost three decades after the players rejected the owners’ “best and final offer.” 2 Related The league and the MLBPA failed to come to an agreement on a new collective bargaining
3:18 PM ET JUPITER, Fla. — Talks broke down between MLB and the MLBPA on Tuesday afternoon leading the league to declare it’ll make a final offer for a new collective bargaining agreement before a 5 p.m. EST deadline. “We thought there was a path to a deal last night and that both sides were
10:04 AM ET Baseball’s offseason has now entered what is supposed to be the preseason, the clean-slate rebirth, the start of spring training and the new calendar. But commissioner Rob Manfred’s so-called “defensive lockout” has been very much offensive. There is no new season as of yet. Spring training games have been canceled. Barring an
2:35 AM ET ESPN News Services Major League Baseball and the players’ union have paused negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement after a 16-hour day of meetings that stretched into early Tuesday morning, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Enough progress was made that the league and MLB Players Association will meet again later Tuesday
7:02 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — The New York Yankees have hired Hensley Meulens as assistant hitting coach after the crosstown Mets poached Eric Chavez from the same position in January. The Yankees announced the hiring Monday night. Meulens played for the franchise from 1989 to ’93 at the start of a
11:13 AM ET ESPN News Services Derek Jeter is stepping down as CEO of the Miami Marlins, he announced Monday. “Today I am announcing that the Miami Marlins and I are officially ending our relationship and I will no longer serve as CEO nor as a shareholder in the Club,” Jeter said in a statement.
11:35 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is in a crisis of its own making, a self-inflicted wound borne of equal parts hubris, short-sightedness and stubbornness from a class of owners who run the teams and
9:02 PM ET JUPITER, Fla. — Despite a long day of conversations between MLB and the MLBPA on Sunday, the sides still remain far apart on a new collective bargaining agreement, a union source told ESPN. The six-plus hours of meetings came a day before a league-imposed deadline that would trigger the cancellation of regular-season