The Latest Breaking News from MLBPA

The Major League Baseball Players Association, which represents nearly 800 active baseball players, is seeking to add minor league players to its ranks, representing a labor shift that would allow the younger athletes to collectively bargain for better wages and playing conditions.

The players’ association said Monday it is circulating union authorization cards among players with minor league contracts to form a separate bargaining unit from the big leaguers.

Unionization could create a seismic shift in how business is conducted in the lower levels of baseball.

Unionization would represent a seismic change in the way the minor leagues have operated for more than a century.

The MLBPA rejected the league’s latest international draft proposal as the sides met their self-imposed deadline.

When the Cubs executed their trade-deadline fire sale last July—after they had traded Yu Darvish and nontendered Kyle Schwarber in December 2020—it appeared that they would be entering a multiyear transition. Perhaps this wouldn’t be the type of long rebuild they endured a decade ago, but it was ...

The Cubs are well-represented at the Arizona facilities the MLBPA reserved for players during the lockout this spring.

Major League Baseball wants to ban the shift, and the MLBPA appears to be open to the ban.

NEW YORK — The players are stepping up and giving back to those unfairly affected by MLB’s lockout.

Houston’s pitcher criticized how CBA negotiations started before deleting his Twitter account.

The MLB Players Association released a statement via Twitter denouncing the cancellation of games as the lockout drags on.