On Monday night and Tuesday morning, the breathless tweets and reports from national baseball writers came flooding in: there was finally real progress towards a new collective bargaining agreement between MLB owners and the MLBPA.
But by Tuesday afternoon, it was abundantly clear that said reports were not only overblown — they were, according to San Francisco Giants pitcher Alex Wood, just a public relations tactic by MLB.
Wood, who re-signed with the Giants to a two-year deal in December, tweeted that the ownership side has been whispering to willing reporters that negotiations were picking up steam, despite evidence to the contrary.