McCovey Chronicles · Dec 2, 2021
Thursday BP: The MLB lockout has begun
Good morning, baseball fans. So, uh, yeah. Let’s just go ahead and address the elephant in the room.
The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association has expired without a new agreement being put into place. Therefore we have now entered the dreaded lockout. Brady wrote a whole thing about this that you should definitely read, but I’ll give you an abridged version about what this lockout entails.
A full shut-down of Major League transactions, which is basically the reason why the hot stove has been scorching hot over the last week, with teams and players trying to get agreements in place before this deadline.