Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association (MLBPA) agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) today, ending a 99-day lockout which began way back in early December 2021 and ended with the new deal ratified by the players then by the owners. So it’s official. There will be baseball in 2022. And it’s set to start on April 7th.
That doesn’t leave much time for an abbreviated Spring Training, and the coming frenzy of free agent signings and trades as teams pick up roster building where it was left when they failed to agree on a CBA and the lockout began three months back.