Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Ross Stripling accused Major League Baseball of some shady negotiating tactics in an interview with Sportsnet.

As MLB and the MLB Players Association spoke late Monday evening and into the early hours of Tuesday morning, the league's labor proposal suddenly included notable changes regarding the luxury tax.

Stripling implied that the changes extended beyond that as well, also featuring completely new items that had not been previously presented.

"It got to be like 12:30 [in the morning] and the fine print of their CBT proposal was stuff we had never seen before," says Stripling. "They were trying to sneak things through us, it was like they think we’re dumb baseball players and we get sleepy after midnight or something. … They pushed us to a deadline that they imposed, and then they tried to sneak some shit past us at that deadline and we were ready for it."