MLB players and management hold talks as Monday deadline looms

• League has said it will cancel games if no deal by Monday
• Opening day and 162-game schedule at risk in stoppage

Locked-out players made a counter-proposal on multiple issues to Major League Baseball on Saturday, as an end-of-Monday deadline approached for a labor deal to salvage opening day and a 162-game schedule.

After holding just six negotiating sessions from the start of the lockout through 19 February, the sides met for a sixth straight day at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida, the vacant spring training home of the Miami Marlins and St Louis Cardinals.