Major League Baseball Likely To Be Locked As Contract Negotiations End Between Owners And Union

The owner of Major League Baseball and the players union ended negotiations on Wednesday without reaching a new collective bargaining agreement, setting the stage for the sport’s first shutdown since the war. strike resulted in the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.

The current trade is set to expire at 11:59 p.m. ET, at which point management can initiate a lock-in. Such an action would freeze all out-of-season trading and raise questions about whether the dispute would disrupt the start of spring training in February or even the start of school on the 31st. March or not.