Barring a late resolution, Major League Baseball will enter a work stoppage on Thursday, as owners enact a lockout that ends a run of 26 years of labor peace. For the Atlanta Braves and the rest of the league, that means a slow-moving offseason that picked up steam in recent days is about to come to a screeching halt while economic issues and lawyers from both sides take center stage.
To understand where baseball is heading, it’s important to understand how things got to this point. It is true that although the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) expires at 11:59 p.