Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reached a tentative agreement on a new collective-bargaining agreement Thursday, ending the league’s 99-day lockout of the players and salvaging a 162-game season, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.
With the end of the second-longest work stoppage in the game’s history, spring training camps will open Sunday, free-agent signings can begin Thursday night, and baseball will attempt to return to some semblance of normalcy after months of fraught negotiations.
It's time to play ball!
An agreement is here at last: https://t.co/oO3z9HJ0Ge
MLB's lockout is mercifully over: https://t.co/1nTOrNtqtZ pic.twitter.com/cyGXzo2koG— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) March 10, 2022