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MLB's "declaration of war" may be a fatal blow to the White Sox rebuild

Tensions between MLB and the players association may put the 2027 season at risk just as the Chicago White Sox are hoping to be competitive again.

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As each baseball season passes, tensions between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) seem to grow stronger.

Regular season MLB games haven’t been cancelled due to labor disagreements since the famous 1994 strike that cancelled the World Series, but things came dangerously close in 2022.

With MLB and the MLBPA unable to come to an agreement by December 2, 2021, baseball officially entered a lockout.