Baseball’s decades of labor peace may come to an end when its current collective bargaining agreement expires in 2021.
A majority (65 percent) of players queried in a wide-ranging survey conducted by USA Today and published by that publication’s Bob Nightengale said they feel a strike is necessary to regain losses incurred in previous CBAs.
There are two key caveats to that bombshell finding. The first is that negotiations on a new deal are still three years away, leaving plenty of time for players and ownership to find common ground. The second is that only 26 of the 63 players who participated in the survey were willing to answer that particular question, so the sample size is small enough that it should be taken with a grain of salt.