If Major League Baseball players and team owners cannot reach an agreement on the terms and conditions of the sport by next week, the 2022 regular season will almost certainly not start on time.
On Dec. 2, MLB franchise owners locked out the players in the sport’s first work stoppage since the 1994 strike. For the past several months, what that meant in practice was a very cold stove this offseason, after a brief glut of transactions.
But maybe you don’t follow baseball much in the winter anyway.