The MLBPA and MLB reached agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement that includes a few big changes. Perhaps the biggest is the addition of HGH blood tests at the start of spring training. MLB will be the first major sport to test for the widely abused performance enhancing drug. The new agreement also revamps the compensation package for when a free agent signs with a new team. There will no longer be “Type B” free agents and fewer players will be given “Type A” status under a new evaluation system.
The league minimum salary will now be $480,000 and a luxury tax will be placed on draft and international free agent signings. If this system were in place a few years ago there is no way the Red Sox would have spent so much on Dice-K.
Two new wild card teams will likely be announced in the new agreement and the restriction of teams from the same division playing each other in the first round will be eliminated.
The new agreement should be announced on Tuesday and will last for the next five year.
Add The Sports Daily to your Google News Feed!
