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It’s that time again. There are only two teams left in the race now, and as we draw closer to the offseason, more focus is turning to the league’s biggest item on the docket for this winter: The CBA.
The current collective bargaining agreement between the league and the MLBPA expires on December 1, 2016, at which point the two parties agree to operate under the current CBA until a new one is reached or go into a lockout.
Although a lockout doesn’t seem imminent, there is one component of the upcoming agreement that’s causing some ripples: The idea of an international draft.