The economics of baseball isn't going to change much due to labor strife. The players have a voice, but it's a limited one. Baseball teams still own players. They control the first seven years of a player's career. Not only that, owners can manipulate the start dates on a player's service time in order to keep them under "team control" for longer. Arbitration rears its ugly head in the final few years, but that's an adversarial process that only serves to undermine a player's relationship with his bosses. When most players reach free agency they are in decline. They aren't as good as they used to be and thus less valuable to other teams.
Baseball is Back
