The Big leagues baseball and the players’ union reached a tentative agreement on a new labor agreement which should allow the start of the 2022 season on April 7, US media reported Thursday.
If ratified, the deal would end weeks of tough negotiations between both parties, which led to a lockout and the suspension of the start of the campaign, which was to start on March 31.
The new season would consist of a schedule of 162 gamesas detailed by the chain ESPN. The games that were scheduled to take place from March 31 to April 7 will be compensated with double sessions during the season.
These reports take an unexpected turn in this labor dispute in the world’s largest baseball league.
Barely 24 hours earlier, both parties ended a new round of marathon negotiations without an agreement.
On Wednesday, the Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfredeven canceled a new series of matches on the schedule and said the new season would not start before April 14.
On the terms of the agreement, a report on the official website of Major League Baseball advanced that it will include an increase in minimum salaries, a new pre-arbitration bonus fund to reward young players and increases in the luxury tax thresholds of the league. league.
