Highlights:
The league that wins the All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record.
Smokeless tobacco will be banned for all new big leaguers.
Although owners pushed for months to include international players in the amateur draft, they dropped that demand this week, sources said. In its place, teams would work under a revised system of bonus pools that would place a hard cap, set initially at approximately $5 million, on the total annual dollars that each club can spend to sign foreign-born amateur players.
The regular season will lengthen from 183 days to 187 starting in 2018, creating four more scheduled off days during the regular season. The sides also have discussed scheduling more day games when teams face long flights following those games.
The minimum salary rises from $507,500 to $535,000 next year, then to $545,000 in 2018 and $555,000 in 2019, with cost-of-living increases the following two years; the minor league minimum for a player appearing on the 40-man roster for at least the second time goes up from $82,700 to $86,500 next year, then to $88,000 in 2018 and $89,500 in 2019, followed by cost-of-living raises.
There will be changes to the revenue-sharing formula, which would affect both payers and recipients. Details of those changes remain unknown.
The sides have discussed numerous changes to the June amateur draft. Those changes could include a revamped slotting system and trading picks. Details have yet to emerge.
As part of the drug agreement, there will be increased testing, players will not be credited with major league service time during suspensions, and biomarker testing for HGH will begin next year.
Changes also are likely to the domestic violence policy. Details have yet to emerge.
Oakland's revenue-sharing funds will be cut to 75 percent next year, 50 percent in 2018, 25 percent in 2019 and then phased out.
The sides have discussed the possibility of playing games outside of North America during the regular season in future seasons. It isn't known where those games would be scheduled, but commissioner Rob Manfred has said publicly that he would like to see regular-season games played in London.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ion-reach-agreement-new-5-year-labor-contract
The league that wins the All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record.
Smokeless tobacco will be banned for all new big leaguers.
Although owners pushed for months to include international players in the amateur draft, they dropped that demand this week, sources said. In its place, teams would work under a revised system of bonus pools that would place a hard cap, set initially at approximately $5 million, on the total annual dollars that each club can spend to sign foreign-born amateur players.
The regular season will lengthen from 183 days to 187 starting in 2018, creating four more scheduled off days during the regular season. The sides also have discussed scheduling more day games when teams face long flights following those games.
The minimum salary rises from $507,500 to $535,000 next year, then to $545,000 in 2018 and $555,000 in 2019, with cost-of-living increases the following two years; the minor league minimum for a player appearing on the 40-man roster for at least the second time goes up from $82,700 to $86,500 next year, then to $88,000 in 2018 and $89,500 in 2019, followed by cost-of-living raises.
There will be changes to the revenue-sharing formula, which would affect both payers and recipients. Details of those changes remain unknown.
The sides have discussed numerous changes to the June amateur draft. Those changes could include a revamped slotting system and trading picks. Details have yet to emerge.
As part of the drug agreement, there will be increased testing, players will not be credited with major league service time during suspensions, and biomarker testing for HGH will begin next year.
Changes also are likely to the domestic violence policy. Details have yet to emerge.
Oakland's revenue-sharing funds will be cut to 75 percent next year, 50 percent in 2018, 25 percent in 2019 and then phased out.
The sides have discussed the possibility of playing games outside of North America during the regular season in future seasons. It isn't known where those games would be scheduled, but commissioner Rob Manfred has said publicly that he would like to see regular-season games played in London.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ion-reach-agreement-new-5-year-labor-contract
