(New York) Major League Baseball’s next bargaining session will take place in a new location, Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, on Monday.
Posted at 7:16 p.m.
Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort, also chairman of the owners’ labor policies committee, is expected to join a management delegation that includes Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem, the teams’ chief negotiator.
Bruce Meyer, the union’s chief negotiator, was to be joined by players. The stadium is about three miles from the home of Mets pitcher Max Scherzer, who is one of eight players on the union’s executive subcommittee.
The baseball stadium is usually used by the Marlins and Cards during training camps. These were to start last Wednesday.
The ongoing dispute is baseball’s ninth work stoppage — the first since 1995.
Monday’s session will be only the seventh dealing with crucial aspects of finances since the start of the lockout on December 2. The different sides only met once on consecutive days, on January 24 and 25.
Major League Baseball said Friday it intends to hold daily meetings with the union for the coming week.
The lockout will begin its 82and day Monday. MLB on Friday canceled preseason games that were scheduled to be held from February 26 to March 4.
Until now, all discussions during the lockout had taken place in New York at the offices of Major League Baseball and the players’ association.
Major League Baseball has told players that to avoid delaying the start of the season, scheduled for March 31, an agreement regarding the new collective agreement must be reached by February 28, at the latest.