Boston.com · Mar 11, 2022
Major League Baseball is back, but the problems that sparked its lockout weren’t solved one bit
Minute Maid Park in Houston. AP COMMENTARY
Baseball is back. For some of you, that’s already enough. Others will follow in the next 72 hours, as the transaction bonanza that began just before Major League Baseball locked out its players — remember that $1.4 billion in signings on Dec. 1 alone? — goes meteoric.
Even those of us, myself included, maintaining some level of grump have to admit relief. By the sides forging a new collective bargaining agreement on Thursday, there will be a full 2022 season, and no new battleground over player pay and service time in a shortened one. That absolutely would’ve developed as it did in 2020, and led to so much more ugly in what was already an orgy of it.
