The MLB lockout will likely delay the opening day of baseball on March 31, making it difficult to hold a 162-game season—and potentially disrupting New York City FC’s schedule.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the Major League Baseball Players Association will unanimously reject MLB’s final proposal before today’s 5 pm ET negotiating deadline. According to Passan, “MLB has threatened to cancel its March 31 Opening Day without a new deal.”
The impasse threatens to derail NYCFC’s 2022 elegant and supremely rational MLS home schedule, in which all but one game will be played at Yankee Stadium or Citi Field.