Play ball!
It took 14 weeks of work stoppage and some tense negotiations, but the MLB lockout is over. The league and Players Association reached a new labor deal Thursday, roughly 100 days after the previous Collective Bargaining Agreement expired. The new CBA must still be ratified by both sides tonight, which is “expected to be a formality,” reports Jeff Passan of ESPN.
The accord took long enough that Opening Day will still be postponed, but it did come in time to salvage a full campaign. The 2022 regular season will feature the usual 162 games, and the early-April contests that were already canceled will be rescheduled and made up.