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Month: December 2021

MLB cancels winter meetings after locking out players

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball’s annual winter meetings have been canceled for the second straight year. Major League Baseball announced the cancellation early Thursday following the start of the owners’ lockout of the Major League Baseball Players Association, the sport’s first work stoppage in 26 years. All transactions involving major league players are being frozen.

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The collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players' union expired December 1

Major League Baseball lockout begins as players and owners fail to reach a new bargaining agreement

By Travis Caldwell, CNN The collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players’ union expired at 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, leading to the first official work stoppage in professional baseball since the 1994-95 seasons. The lockout will prevent players from using team facilities as well as free agents from signing new contracts

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MLB owners lock out players, 1st work stoppage since 1995

By RONALD BLUM and STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writers IRVING, Texas (AP) — Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day. The strategy, management’s equivalent of a strike

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