MLB’s lockout already delayed the start of Spring Training. And judging by the sorry state of negotiations on the day MLB said was the last to ensure a March 31 Opening Day and a 162-game season, players on 40-man rosters won’t see live competitive baseball action for quite some time.
MLB is willing to miss a month of games, according to multiple reports from the negotiations between the Players Association and owners in Jupiter, Fla. on Monday. Not long after that report, players started to chime in on social media, pitching themselves as good candidates for baseball jobs, well, elsewhere, in the meantime.
The Phillies’ Bryce Harper, tagged Nippon Professional Baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants with a photoshopped photo of himself in one of their “Tokyo” uniforms, in an Instagram story post.
