MLB 2022 Season

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And boy aren’t we off to a great start.

Go Guardians!

Excellent job linking the new thread in the end of the old one! If only everyone on the internet was so enlightened.

Well, the good news is, it's early. This really doesn't become a thing until March.

How long is the lockout expected to last? Could games be lost next year?

Yes, games could be lost. That's always a possibility once a work stoppage occurs, but with three months until the regular season begins, it would be shocking if 2022 didn't go a full 162 games. There is a chance spring training doesn't start on time, using that period as a soft deadline to force some issues to get resolved, but we're far from that happening. The sides already lost a lot of money during the pandemic. Anything short of a full season would be another devastating blow to the sport, both economically and from a public relations standpoint.

Of the major North American sports, is MLB owned and run by the dumbest people? They are openly antagonistic to major and minor league players as well as the fans.

Ugh again?

I wonder how much Scherzers signing now had to do with this.

absurddoctor wrote:

I wonder how much Scherzers signing now had to do with this.

Oh this is why all of these signings happened now rather than later. Some players wanted to get this sorted out before any potential work stoppage so there's no scramble to get ready for spring training. Some wanted to lock in paydays before the landscape changed. This is also why Correa hasn't signed, this won't affect him.

Prederick wrote:

Well, the good news is, it's early. This really doesn't become a thing until March.

Or, y'know, mid-February.

The final blow has been dealt to an on-time start to spring training, with Major League Baseball making a new offer Saturday that the players’ association received as only scant progress in the drawn-out labor talks.

On the 73rd day of a lockout that has become the second-longest work stoppage in baseball history, clubs gave the union 16 documents totaling 130 pages, encompassing all key areas in a mix of new offers and previous proposals.

The one-hour session was just the fifth on core economics since the lockout began, and the first on a weekend. The sides remained far apart on luxury tax thresholds and rate, with major differences on revenue-sharing and how to address players’ allegations of service time manipulation. MLB said it remains opposed to any increase in salary arbitration eligibility or reduction in revenue sharing.

Major League Baseball cancels spring training games as lockout bites

Major League Baseball on Friday canceled the first week of spring training games through 4 March, in the first public acknowledgement of disruption caused by the lockout.

The announcement came with the work stoppage in its 79th day, and a day after talks between management and the Major League Baseball Players Association lasted just 15 minutes.

Prederick wrote:

Major League Baseball cancels spring training games as lockout bites

Major League Baseball on Friday canceled the first week of spring training games through 4 March, in the first public acknowledgement of disruption caused by the lockout.

The announcement came with the work stoppage in its 79th day, and a day after talks between management and the Major League Baseball Players Association lasted just 15 minutes.

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Inside the self-inflicted crisis boiling over as MLB's lockout deadline arrives

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL is in a crisis of its own making, a self-inflicted wound borne of equal parts hubris, short-sightedness and stubbornness from a class of owners who run the teams and seemingly have designs on running the game into the ground. Barring a miracle eleventh-hour agreement Monday on a new labor deal that ends its lockout of the MLB Players Association, the league has said it will cancel Opening Day games. That baseball finds itself on the precipice of such an ugly denouement is no accident. It is a study in the consequences of bad behavior -- of indignities big and small, of abiding by the letter of the law while ignoring its spirit and, worst of all, of alienating those who make the sport great.

/checks watch

Another hour and 15 minutes until we can all just skip paying attention through April.

Prederick wrote:

/checks watch

Another hour and 15 minutes until we can all just skip paying attention through April for the foreseeable future.

FIFY. Go Guardians!

@ByRobertMurray wrote:

Asked a player for his reaction to Rob Manfred laughing after postponing the start of the regular season: “Are you talking about the guy who cut 42 minor-league teams and called the World Series trophy a hunk of metal?”

The way you read how baseball players and baseball writers talk about Manfred, it's like he launched an unprovoked invasion into Ukraine.

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And so far, the MLB has saved me tens of dollars for not having to buy Guardians gear (yet) and not having to budget a few trips to CLE and Pitt for summer bball.

I started feeling weird about wearing my baseball hats around with the sad way MLB is acting. But I don't know. I also think all this news is making me angry over something that really doesn't deserve it. MLB is being greedy and the players are standing up for themselves. Fans get screwed as games get canceled. But does it really matter to me if there are 50 fewer games this season? Or if somehow they manage to lose a whole season? I have way too many hobbies vying for my limited free time. So I'm going to keep wearing my cool hats even if they rep a league that's not so cool right now.

I think it would be hilarious if the MLB managed to put together a 50-game season during COVID but loses the season because it can't figure out how to equitably split its record profits...

Oh, wait, that is tragic capitalism, not funny.

Well surprise, surprise. They actually agreed to a deal. Baseball is back baby!

Sounds like the executive committee players were largely voting against the deal but the other player reps overruled them and voted for it 26 to 12.

Time to update the hero image!

Will be a full 162 game season too. Latest I heard is that free agency might open up at midnight tonight. Spring training starts March 18th and Opening Day on April 7th. Teams have 8 days to desperately try and sign every player they can. This will be hilarious.

Free agency starts today at 6pm est. Should be a frenzy of activity next few days.

Medmey wrote:

Free agency starts today at 6pm est. Should be a frenzy of activity next few days.

Holy hell that's fast. Woooo!

I didn't think they'd get a full season played, so this is a pleasant surprise.

Wish the players were able to get a better deal, but let's go!

Pleasant surprise

Play Ball! Owners approved it 30-0 just now so its really starting.

26 of the 30 Team reps voted in favor of deal (26-4). Dissenting team reps were the Mets, Yankees, Astros and Cardinals.

All 8 executive subcommittee members (Andrew Miller, Scherzer, Lindor, Semien, Zack Britton, James Paxton, Jason Castro, Garrit Cole) voted against the deal so they were in essence overruled by the majority of Team Reps and players. Total vote was 26-12 in favor in the end.

Very interesting to me that the executive committee players were totally out of step with the people they represent.

Ya, that doesn't seem like a good thing at all if it was a unanimous no from them.

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