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Two days before players were scheduled to strike, baseball commissioner Bud Selig arrived in New York on Wednesday to be near the talks.

Barring a surge of progress in labor talks this week, the executive board of the Major League Baseball Players' Association could confer by telephone by Friday to set a strike date, the earliest of which could be Aug. 16.

After a brief discussion of revenue sharing, baseball's labor talks broke until next week.

Countering criticism from players -- including one inside their own clubhouse -- Boston Red Sox officials voiced support for commissioner Bud Selig on Wednesday and said he has the support of baseball's owners in negotiations over a new labor contract

The talks for the labor agreement have dragged on longer than Major League Baseball had hoped. The dream in the commissioner's office was that there would be a settlement announced at the World Series, amid the pomp and circumstance and banners,...

Blog | November 15, 2011

Buster Olney writes that while MLB's labor negotiations continue to drag on, free agents are left in limbo because the current compensation rules associate an early-round pick with Type A free agents. Plus, news on Matt Kemp's big deal and other topics.

Blog | Conversation | November 15, 2011

After years of MLB's attempts to hide injury info, Peter Keating's next-level statistics and analytics blog digs deep into that data to reveal when, who and why players get hurt.

Blog | Conversation | March 11, 2010

Baseball owners and the players union exchanged luxury-tax proposals on Tuesday and may meet again in the evening.