MLBPA opens CBA negotiations with plan to punish low-spending teams and raise luxury-tax threshold to $300M

Major League Baseball’s next labor fight officially has its opening proposal.

The MLB Players Association made its first formal offer to owners Wednesday as the sport begins working toward a new collective bargaining agreement, and the union’s initial wishlist is exactly what fans might expect: higher salaries, more player protections and a new mechanism aimed at forcing lower-spending teams to put more money into the on-field product (cough, Pirates, cough).

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