MLB lockout talks resume in Florida as openers threatened

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball's negotiations to salvage opening day resume at a new venue Monday: Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida.

Colorado Rockies CEO Dick Monfort, chairman of the owners’ labor policy committee, was expected to join a management delegation that includes Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem, the clubs' lead negotiator.

Bruce Meyer, the union’s chief negotiator, was expected to be joined by players. The site of negotiations is about 3 miles from the home of

The ballpark usually would be the spring training home of the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals at this time of year, but

Monday's session will be just the seventh on core economics since the

The lockout enters its 82nd day Monday. MLB on Friday

While owners and players have participated by Zoom, the only ones to attend a session in person have been Monfort and free-agent reliever Andrew Miller, on Jan. 24.

Until now, all talks during the lockout had been in New York at the offices of MLB and the players' association.

MLB told the union that Feb. 28 is the last possible day to reach an agreement to allow

But the sides agreed to less training time after disrupted spring trainings in 1990, 1995 and 2020.

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