Where we stand one month into the lockout

Photo by James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesOn December 2, 2021, Major League Baseball’s owners made the short-sighted and aggressive decision to impose an offseason lockout on the sport, freezing 40-man rosters and barring players and team employees from communicating. It has been one month since that fateful day ended more than 25 years of relative labor peace in baseball, and as we emerge from the holiday season into what is typically a very busy part of the offseason, let’s take stock of where this story stands so far.

In the days prior to the Collective Bargaining Agreement’s expiration on December 1st, representatives from Major League Baseball and the Player’s Association met…