Major League Baseball has canceled the first four series of 2022, commissioner Rob Manfred said on Wednesday. It will be difficult to play 162 games. At some point we have to wonder when that number will be 0.
Day 98 of the owner-imposed lockout ended the same way the first 97 did: without a collective-bargaining agreement between the league and the players association. The sides, shuttling back and forth from their offices in Midtown Manhattan highrises and communicating by phone and email, neared something approaching a compromise on many of the major economic questions. But they did not come to terms on the question of a draft for international amateurs—a question that nearly exploded negotiations the last time they discussed this, before the 2017 season.
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