JUPITER, Fla. -- Talks broke down between MLB and the MLBPA on Tuesday afternoon leading the league to declare it'll make a final offer for a new collective bargaining agreement before a 5 p.m. EST deadline.
"We thought there was a path to a deal last night and that both sides were closing in on the major issues," a league spokesperson said Tuesday afternoon. "They couldn't make us a CBT proposal last night so we agreed to extend the deadline to exhaust every option.
"The MLBPA had a decidedly different tone today and made proposals inconsistent with the prior discussions.