MLB, MLBPA reach labor agreement: Everything you need to know as lockout ends

The MLB lockout is over.

It took more than three months -- and multiple deadlines for delaying the regular season -- before Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association ended their stalemate and came to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement.

So how did finally reaching a deal go down? When can free agents start signing again? When will players report to camp? In the end, what did all of this mess mean, anyway?

ESPN baseball experts Bradford Doolittle, Alden Gonzalez, Buster Olney, Jesse Rogers and David Schoenfield break down what was accomplished -- and what comes next.

What changed to allow the sides to come together on a deal?

Urgency created movement. The union did not…