The Latest Breaking News from Major League Baseball

Sen. Dick Durbin wants hearing to look into baseball antitrust exemption despite new labor deal

Even as Major League Baseball reached an agreement Thursday to end a 99-day lockout of its players, one of the highest-ranking members of the U.S. Senate said he intends to look into a century-old Supreme Court ruling that enables the league to operate as a lawful monopoly.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 11, 2022

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 · Mar 10, 2022

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…

Tribune News Service · Mar 10, 2022

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 · Mar 9, 2022

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 · Mar 9, 2022

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…

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

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

The popularity gap between the mighty NFL and every other sports league in the United States was on display Tuesday as the football league served up a blockbuster trade and star-player signings, while Major League Baseball's labor lockout, having canceled both the traditional spring training and opening day, stretched into…

Tribune News Service · Mar 9, 2022

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 · Mar 7, 2022

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 · Mar 7, 2022

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 · Mar 6, 2022