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MLB 2022: Well, That Sure Was Easy, Wasn’t It? – Reflections On Baseball

Fans of MLB have been retaken to the woodpile. We have no recourse except to revel that there will be baseball. But we know… Major League Baseball is back, and for fans like myself –  who really gives a damn about the inner-workings of the pseudo negotiations that took place over the past three months? But rest assured, there is a bitter taste in the mouths of these same fans who see through the…

Major League Baseball Owners Lock Out Players As Collective Bargaining Agreement Expires – CBS Boston

IRVING, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day. The strategy, management’s equivalent of a strike under federal labor law, ended the sport’s labor peace after 9,740 days…

Crisis Averted: MLB Players, Owners Reach Tentative Labor Deal

IRVING, Texas (CBSNewYork/AP) — Baseball players and owners reached a tentative agreement on a five-year labor contract Wednesday night, a deal that will extend the sport’s industrial peace to 26 years since the ruinous fights in the first two decades of free agency. After days of near round-the-clock talks, negotiators reached a verbal agreement about 3 1/2 hours before the expiration of the…

CBA Hurting Players: All-Star Players Unsurprisingly Remain #MLB #HotStove

Cespedes is still a free agent…thanks to the CBA. Courtesy: Fox Sports

The current MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement was put into place in 2011 and expires on December 1st of 2016. With the expiration, it is likely that players will find a way or work towards eliminating the current draft pick compensation. While the qualifying offer protects small-market teams and allows them to receive…

Despite finishing seventh in the NL Cy Young voting and posting a 2.86 ERA in 2012, Kyle Lohse can't get a contract.