Baseball is back, and its biggest rivalry between the Red Sox and Yankees will be the season opener.
On Thursday, the league announced that the players union and owners came to an agreement on a new CBA — ending a lockout which threatened to shave games off the schedule.
Instead, per ESPN, the two sides came together to end a 99-day owner-imposed lockout. The players got significant increases on minimum salaries as well as progress on the competitive balance tax threshold, while owners got a number of advantages as well as the opportunity to make rule changes over the next 45 days.