Visitors to Major League Baseball media properties in the last week have noticed a distinct lack of Major League Baseball players. Since the league locked out the players when the collective-bargaining agreement expired at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 1, team websites yanked down articles about current players and scrubbed their headshots from rosters. The league’s television network reruns Field of Dreams. Its Instagram has posted only about the Hall of Fame, its TikTok only about celebrity first pitches.
The league says it is following advice from attorneys about not running afoul of labor law; the players’ association says it does not know what law that would be.