JUPITER, Fla. – The 2022 Major League Baseball season will not start on time, according to commissioner Rob Manfred.
"I had hoped against hope that I would not have to have this particular press conference in which I am going to cancel some regular season games," Manfred said here Tuesday afternoon.
He said the first two scheduled series of the regular season are canceled, setting up the first disruption to the MLB regular season from a work stoppage since the 1994-95 strike.
On the 90th day of an owner-implemented lockout and the ninth straight day of in-person bargaining, the league and union were unable to reach a mutually tolerable collective bargaining agreement.