Report: MLB, union to renew talks Thursday

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reportedly will conduct their first bargaining session of the new year on Thursday.

ESPN reported Tuesday that MLB will make a "core-economics proposal" at the session, the first sit-down since the league locked out the players on Dec. 2.

This is the first baseball work stoppage since a strike that began on Aug. 12, 1994. It led to the cancellation of the 1994 World