For the second straight winter, high tensions between the MLB Players Association and Major League Baseball have fueled intense discussion surrounding procedural and structural changes changes to the game that would ease pace-of-play concerns on the part of MLB and foster more equitable labor relations that would mollify the players union.
Some of those long-debated changes are now coming over the next two years, as MLB and the MLBPA have reached an agreement, according to reports. And the two sides will continue to talk, despite the fact that the current collective bargaining agreement does not expire until December 2021.