The world keeps spinning and the 2022 Marlins season is tentatively scheduled to go on as planned, but for the first time since the 1994-95 players’ strike, we are in the midst of an MLB work stoppage. Commissioner Rob Manfred and the MLB team owners were “forced to commence a lockout” Wednesday night as a result of the league’s expired collective bargaining agreement. Per Evan Drellich of The Athletic, this is the fourth lockout in MLB history and its ninth overall work stoppage of some kind.
Manfred posted an 800-word letter to baseball fans here. Unfortunately, it is rife with misleading information suggesting that the MLB Players’ Association is at fault for this.