When Major League Baseball announced their failure to reach an agreement with the players on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement on Tuesday evening, the start of the 2022 regular season at the major league level was the cost.
Minor league players have been working out at various spring training facilities for a couple weeks already, however. Most minor leaguers aren’t part of the MLBPA, so they can get to work.
That is, most minor leaguers.
Minor league players who are on the 40-man roster of the organization are part of the players association and are subject to the lockout.