Baseball's current labor agreement expires on Dec. 1, 2026, setting up a potential dispute. Previous MLB work stoppages often involved salary arbitration, free agency, and salary cap disputes. The ...

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MLB owners have amassed a reserve fund of approximately $75 million per team — roughly $2 billion total — as they prepare for a potentially extended labor dispute when the current collective ...

Bracing for a potentially protracted labor fight, MLB owners have funded a war chest of about $75 million per team to provide some financial protection should games be lost to a work stoppage. There ...

Tony Clark’s resignation as MLBPA executive director sent a shockwave through Major League Baseball. The timing is especially poor, as the Players Association and MLB will enter into negotiations ...

The highest-ranking official in the MLB Players Association didn't pull any punches when addressing the state of negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement. "A lockout is all but ...

PHOENIX — Just in case anyone had even the slightest flicker of optimism there won’t be a labor war shutting down baseball in December, that was extinguished quickly Tuesday morning with Tony Clark ...

From the man who brought you the player opt-out comes the newest innovation in baseball contract language: the lockout-proof deal! When the Yankees and Cody Bellinger (or, more accurately, his agent, ...

This is not the first time that Microsoft has had to issue a patch for a patch. Just last week, it had to react when it inadvertently introduced two new bugs: an inability to connect to Windows Cloud ...

As Matt Clapp shared for Awful Announcing, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred insisted during an appearance on New York sports radio station WFAN that there "has been a rush to negativity by a lot of the ...

Bo Bichette's free-agent contract with the New York Mets is a good example of how an impending lockout doesn't seem to be affecting the way teams are operating this offseason. Luke Hales/Getty Images ...

That sound you heard – besides the “cha-ching” of Kyle Tucker’s bank account – was owners across the league further digging their heels in for a lockout in 2027. It is not Tucker’s fault, of course, ...