A month into lockout, MLB and players will finally meet for negotiations

Mackenzie Salmon connected with Yankees legend CC Sabathia to his reaction to Carl Nassib becoming the first active gay player in the NFL and if the MLB was ready for its first openly gay player.PHOENIX — Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association will meet Thursday for the first time since Dec. 1 to discuss some core economic issues and competitive balance issues on Thursday in a video conference, two officials directly involved in the negotiations told USA TODAY Sports.

MLB is not expected to address free agency or salary arbitration in their proposals, but discuss further ways to de-incentivize tanking among teams, including the elimination of draft pick compensation for teams signing free agents. Major League Baseball has offered to increase the minimum salary from $570,500 to $600,000, which would rise to $650,000 and $700,000 through the CBA.

The union is seeking the competitive balance tax on payrolls to increase from $210 million to $245 million while the owners have offered a raise to $214 million at the outset. The last time the two sides met on core economic issues, their meeting lasted only seven minutes on Dec. 1 – before MLB implemented a lockout about 12 hours later at 12:01 on Dec. 2.

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