[ad_1]
Sign up here to get Beyond the Back Page delivered to your inbox each weekday morning.
After the Players Association declined Major League Baseball’s request for federal mediation – dragging out a lockout that then had no end in sight – Max Scherzer laid out the union’s desires.
Consider it the players’ checklist for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
“We want a system,” the Mets starter tweeted on Feb. 4, “where threshold and penalties don’t function as caps, allows younger players to realize more of their market value, makes service time manipulation a thing of the past, and eliminate tanking as a winning strategy.”
[ad_2]