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Major League Baseball season set to go ahead after new deal, report says

Opening day will now take place 7 April after 99-day lockout

The Independent UK

Baseball is back. So who will the Mariners go after once free agency resumes?

After 99 excruciating days of waiting and wondering when or if it would return, watching the back and forth of the pugilistic negotiations between the Major League Baseball owners and the MLB Players Association play out on social media, one of the most anticipated seasons in recent Mariners history can…

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MLB Owners, Players Reach Tentative Agreement To End Lockout: What Fans And Investors Should Know

Major League Baseball is back for the 2022 season Here’s the latest. What Happened: Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have reached a new collective-bargaining agreement, according to ESPN.

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MLB lockout nears end, players accept terms in time for 162

Players have voted to accept Major League Baseball’s latest offer for a new labor deal, paving the way to end a 99-day lockout and salvage a 162-game regular season

The Independent UK

Senator floats reexamination of baseball’s antitrust exemption - Roll Call

Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin tweeted late Wednesday that the exemption allows Major League Baseball “to act as a lawful monopoly.”

Roll Call

MLB removes additional games from schedule as talks with locked-out players break down

As Major League Baseball and its locked-out players moved as close as they’ve been on even the thorniest economic issues, any momentum in their drawn-out collective bargaining talks stalled Wednesday over the reintroduction of an international amateur draft.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Deadline delayed (again): In latest attempt to save full season, MLB and players' union prompt overnight negotiations

JUPITER, Fla. — If only Major League Baseball and the players' union could cover the distances between them at the negotiating table as briskly as they've walked between meeting rooms.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Apple, MLB Announce 'Friday Night Baseball' Package

Apple will enter the live sports coverage arena with “Friday Night Baseball.” Apple and Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that Apple TV+ will carry a weekly doubleheader on Friday nights in eight countries when the regular season begins. Games will initially be available without the need for an Apple TV+…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Editorial: Don’t blame baseball players for the lockout. They’re actually underpaid

With springtime almost here, many of us look forward to the normal rhythms of life that baseball helps provide. But trust Major League Baseball owners to louse that up with their lockout of players. Spring training should be happening right now. But players are still locked out. And we are…

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Tom Krasovic: As NFL sizzles — see, Russell Wilson trade — MLB fiddles

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Dieter Kurtenbach: MLB's shift ban is the first good thing to come from the lockout

This Major League Baseball lockout has gone on far too long, it's poised to go on for weeks, perhaps months, yet, and I fear the collateral damage of it will relegate the sport to a second tier in American society.

Tribune News Service

Benjamin Hochman: Texting baseball and testing baseball — a look at the lockout from on-the-fence fans

It’s happening, in real time, on my text chain — and perhaps on yours, too? In just the first week after Major League Baseball canceled some 2022 games, casual fans are second-guessing the sport. During the lockout, they’re testing their allegiances, they’re asking tough questions, they’re wondering why they truly…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Paul Sullivan: Don’t let the Major League Baseball owners’ lockout spoil your spring, Chicago

Wrigleyville was humming on a sunny Saturday morning with the first real hint of a Chicago spring in the air.

Chicago Tribune

How MLB’s luxury tax became the sticking point between owners and players

The Competitive Balance Tax (CBT), better known as the luxury tax, is a sticking point in the ongoing labor negotiations between Major League Baseball and the Players Association. The CBT is said to be the major hot-button topic blocking both parties from reaching a deal on a new Collective Bargaining…

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SF Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow on MLB Commissioner Manfred: ‘He’s got to go’

Opening Day is officially canceled, but lead negotiators from Major League Baseball and the Players Association met again Thursday as the two sides continue to lay the groundwork for a new collective bargaining agreement.

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Deesha Thosar: Major League Baseball is picking up where it left off in 2020

NEW YORK — When you want to catch a thief, watch their hands, not their mouth.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The rich men who control baseball show they don't care about fans, again

It's easy to say that in labor negotiations each side must give a little. That won't do in the case of Major League Baseball.

Los Angeles Times

Bill Shaikin: Rob Manfred canceled opening day, then spoke about it. Here’s what he should’ve said.

LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday, after negotiations broke off between owners and players in Major League Baseball, and three months after owners locked out players, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced he had called off opening day. Manfred did address reporters, but this is what we would have liked to hear:

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Mike Trout directly called out Rob Manfred for Major League Baseball’s collapsed CBA negotiations

Mike Trout went directly for Rob Manfred. Wow.

Daily Mirror

Major League Baseball cancels start of season over dispute with players

MLB have confirmed they have cancelled the opening two series of the 2022 season as the lockout between players and owners continues.

The Guardian - UK

Ant-Man to Avengers: why there’s more to Anaheim than Disneyland (but it’s a good place to start)

With everything from a Major League Baseball team to a live music scene, you’ll find the city of Anaheim is a destination in itself – and that’s before you check out the new Avengers Campus

USA Today Sports Media Group

Major League Baseball Got You Down? Try The Mountain West.

MLB and Rob Manfred might be canceling games, but Mountain West baseball is already in full swing with plenty of stories to follow.

Tribune News Service

Deesha Thosar: MLB’s proposed luxury tax is designed to punish the Mets

NEW YORK — The luxury tax, or Major League Baseball’s well-disguised salary cap, is being designed by owners to punish Steve Cohen and the Mets.

Chicago Sun-Times

Next generation watching as MLB cancels games, lockout continues

With no CBA deal on Tuesday, Major League baseball canceled the first two series of the regular season schedule.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ben Frederickson: Have MLB owners underestimated fan angst if regular season gets postponed?

Whenever Major League Baseball decides to stop treating its fans like spent sunflower seed shells and chewed-through bubble gum, it’s going to have to lure them back to ballparks to buy tickets and overpriced everything else.

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