A story that was 2 years in the running was how Major League Baseball and the Players Association would negotiate a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Based on the negotiations from 2020, there was going to be some fireworks and plenty of posturing through the media as one side tried to out-leverage the other. This winter, it would come as no surprise as the owners would immediately institute a lockout on the players the day the previous CBA expired. Over the next 99 days there was plenty of media posturing in a clash of Rob Manfred press statements and players voicing their displeasure on the process over Twitter.
MLB and MLBPA finally able to agree to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, 2022 will have a full 162-game season
