Locked-out players and Major League Baseball engaged in a series of intense meetings Monday in an effort to forge the path to a labor deal before management’s deadline for salvaging opening day on March 31.
Commissioner Rob Manfred met with the union twice — one more than he had previously since the lockout started Dec. 2.
“We’re working at it,’” Manfred said around 6 p.m. after his second session of the day with the union.
The sides were negotiating for the eighth straight day after meeting just six times on core economics during the first 2 1/2 months of the lockout.