By John Nestor

Major League Baseball will have a new labor contract that includes blood testing for human growth hormone.

Both sides hope to sign the deal by Tuesday with the current deal expiring on Dec. 11.

A report in the New York Times, citing two league sources familiar with the deal, said testing would begin in February during Spring Training. According to the sources, the penalty for a positive HGH test will be the same as a positive steroid test - a 50-game suspension.

MLB already conducts random testing for HGH in the minor leagues and would become the first major professional sports league in North America to test for HGH. The NFL agreed upon on HGH testing in its latest CBA, but has yet to implement it.

The new labor deal will run through the 2016 season. If so, that would mean the game would have two full decades of continuous labor peace for the first time since the formation of the Major League Baseball Players Association in the 1960s.

Other parts of the deal include baseball's minimum salary rising from $414,000 this year to $480,000 in 2012 and $500,000 later in the deal.

The deal also reigns in bonuses paid to amateur free agents, both those entering professional baseball from high schools and colleges and those coming to MLB organizations from abroad.

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New MLB Labor Deal to Include HGH Testing