MLB, MLBPA reps held informal meeting Thursday
There will be no spring training this month and no Opening Day on March 31. Major League Baseball games originally scheduled for the last day in March and early April have already been wiped out after Tuesday's announcement that the owners and players failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement.
No new negotiations between the league and Major League Baseball Players Association were held on Wednesday, but on Thursday, there were some informal discussions. The approximately 90-minute session didn't lead to much though.
Nightengale further reported that the time of the next round of negotiations — whether formal or informal — is currently up in the air.
The current work stoppage is the league's first since a strike in 1994-95 that resulted in the cancellation of more than 900 games and the 1994 World Series.
The MLBPA recently gained vocal support from both the Major League Soccer Players Association and the National Basketball Players Association.
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