JUPITER, Fla. — Monday marks the first day of daily negotiations between Major League Baseball and MLBPA.
Teams were supposed to begin spring training earlier this month, but that may not happen until March 5 at the earliest.
Opening Day is scheduled for March 31.
Negotiators, including Colorado Rockies CEO Dick Monfort and Bruce Meyer, will discuss a list of proposals at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida.
Until now, all talks during the lockout had been in New York at the offices of MLB and the players’ association.
Monday’s session will be just the seventh on core economics since the lockout started December 2, and the sides have met on consecutive days just once, on January 24 and 25.
MLB said Friday that it intended to have meetings with the union every day in the coming week. The league previously set Feb. 28 as the deadline to reach an agreement before the regular season would have to be postponed.
If an agreement is not reached in time, it would be the first time since 1995 that MLB has missed games due to a work stoppage.
