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Saturday, Feb. 26: As we tick closer and closer to the Feb. 28 deadline that the league has set to avoid the cancellation of any regular season games, Saturday seemingly was not a productive day in negations.
Evan Drellich of The Athletic obtained MLB’s proposal on the luxury tax threshold, and there doesn’t seem to be much of a willingness to move from the league:
MLB’s proposed CBT first tiers
2022: 214m (same as previous)
2023: 215m (increase of $1m)
2024: 216m (same as previous)
2025: 218m (same as previous)
2026: 222m (same as previous)— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) February 26, 2022Jon Heyman of Audacy Sports hears that “there’s a lot of negativity about today,” adding that the MLB Players Association is adamant about the luxury tax thresholds rising in the new CBA, while the penalties for those who surpass it remain the same from the 2017-2021 CBA.