JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Negotiators for locked-out major league players and owners recessed their talks until Monday, the day management has set as a deadline to salvage March 31 openers.
The sides held a series of short and more frequent meetings that stretched into last night before saying they would resume at 10 a.m., three hours earlier than usual.
MLB says that if there is not a deal by the end of Monday, there will not be enough training time to start the season as scheduled and play 162 games.
Entering the 88th day of the work stoppage they were still far apart on big issues that include luxury tax thresholds and rates, the size of the new bonus pool for pre-arbitration players and minimum salaries.
Elsewhere around the majors;
— The Mets have hired Elizabeth Benn as director of major league operations, making her the franchise’s highest-ranking female baseball operations employee ever. That’s according to a person with knowledge of the hiring. Benn has worked for Major League Baseball since finishing a master’s degree in philosophy at Columbia in 2017. She’s had roles in youth programs, labor relations and baseball operations with the league.
