MLB and the MLBPA \u201crecently held a meeting to discuss the sport\u2019s labor issues,\u201d though the two sides are \u201cnot bargaining yet.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n
MLB and the MLBPA \u201crecently held a meeting to discuss the sport\u2019s labor issues<\/a>,\u201d according to sources cited by THE ATHLETIC, though the two sides are \u201cnot bargaining yet.\u201d Sources said the lead negotiators for each side — Dan Halem for MLB and Bruce Meyer for the MLBPA — \u201cboth participated.\u201d Preliminary meetings \u201care not unusual ahead of formal negotiations,\u201d which will \u201clikely not begin until the spring.\u201d In advance discussions, the sides \u201ctypically share their overall views of the game and its economics.\u201d Both the union and the league \u201chave been preparing for the upcoming negotiations\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 11\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB and the MLBPA \u201crecently held a meeting to discuss the sport\u2019s labor issues,\u201d though the two sides…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-278315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}