The MLB lockout will likely delay the opening day of baseball on March 31, making it difficult to hold a 162-game season—and potentially disrupting New York City FC’s schedule.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the Major League Baseball Players Association will unanimously reject MLB’s final proposal before today’s 5 pm ET negotiating deadline. According to Passan, “MLB has threatened to cancel its March 31 Opening Day without a new deal.”
The impasse threatens to derail NYCFC’s 2022 elegant and supremely rational MLS home schedule, in which all but one game will be played on a Saturday or a Sunday at Yankee Stadium or Citi Field.