Baseball owners will consider voting to lock out the players if the union and MLB can't reach agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, reports FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal.
The current collective bargarning agreement ends Dec. 1.
Thhe winter meetings are scheduled to take place Dec. 4 to 8, but signings of free-agents would be put on hold until a new CBA is agreed on.
According to the report, owners are frustrated with the union over the slow pace of the discussions.
One of the issues that remain between the two sides are eliminating direct draft-pick compensation in free agency in exchange for the right to implement an international draft.