

The sides were to meet as part of talks that have been ongoing for months.

But we’re dealing with the economic world that we have right now and trying to plan for the potential in the future.”ĭeputy Commissioner Dan Halem, management’s chief negotiator, was in town for the GM meetings at the same time Bruce Meyer, the union’s senior director of collective bargaining and legal, was at a neighboring hotel in Carlsbad for the union’s sessions with player agents. And we’ll try to plan for it as best we can. Hopefully, it’ll just be business as usual. “There are obviously a lot of different ways the baseball landscape could look in a month or two. “I think you can paralyze yourself trying to plan for every single one of them,” Houston GM James Click said of the many possibilities. The current tax system sunsets with the expiration of the labor deal. Until there’s an agreement, teams can’t be sure what luxury tax levels will be in place for 2022.

Pretty much the exact same words were repeated by baseball operations executives of other teams, making it sound like a common talking point distributed ahead of their media availability.
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“We’re going about business as usual and remaining optimistic that what we’ve seen over essentially the last three decades will hopefully continue,” Chicago White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said Tuesday on the first full day of Major League Baseball’s first in-person GM meetings in two years.
