Major League Baseball (MLB) have been forced to cancel the start of the regular season as the lockout with the players has continued past the league’s Tuesday deadline.
The 2022 season was scheduled to begin on March 31. The ongoing work stoppage is the ninth in MLB history, and commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed the opening round of games has been cancelled.
Following a week of intense daily negotiations between the two parties as well as three months of on-off negotiations, the MLB officially cancelled the first two series of the regular season. Service time toward free agency, playoff expansion, luxury tax and a salary floor are among the key factors which led the league to lock out the players in December.
