January 25, 2022.Alerted in the B/R App.Emilee Chinn is a photographer.According to The Athletic's Evan Drellich, Major League Baseball deputy commissioner Dan Halem said during a meeting with the Players Association on Monday that the league is willing to lose regular-season games.Drellich wrote.Whether Halem was issuing a threat, or merely providing a statement of the obvious, depends on whom you ask. Some on the players' side thought that it was notable that Halem would say the possibility of missing games was a threat, while the commissioner's office disagreed.The MLB remains displeased with the proposed cuts to revenue sharing in the MLBPA's latest offer. There is no indication that the league is willing to make changes to the revenue sharing system.Per Drellich:Revenue sharing is one of the third-rail issues that MLB is positioning. Whether the MLBPA eventually accepts those positions, and could find a way to accomplish what it wants without touching those areas, is a big question.The league and Players Association are set to meet again on Tuesday, after a Monday bargaining session led to the first piece of progress between the sides since the league locked the players out.The Players Association was asked by MLB to remove three items from its wish list, including changing the six-year reserve period before free agency and adjusting revenue sharing.Passan reported that during their meeting on Monday, the MLBPA dropped its request for age-based free agency and slashed the amount of revenue sharing it asked MLB to take away from small-market teams.MLB made three proposals during the first post-lockout meeting, but the Players Association rejected them. The league offered a formula-based salary for between two and three years of service time, a draft-pick reward related to the success who started on Opening Day rosters and all non-playoff teams being eligible to receive a top-three pick, Passan noted.Passan reported that the union proposed a rise in the league minimum salary to $775,000, an eight-team draft lottery, and a $245 million base luxury tax threshold.The regular season starts on March 31. The season would likely start on time if a newCBA is in place by the beginning of March. This would allow players time to ramp up activity and teams time to conduct business before the festivities begin.
