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The 2021–22 Major League Baseball lockout was the ninth work stoppage in Major League Baseball (MLB) history. It began at 12:01 a.m. EST on December 2, 2021, after MLB owners voted unanimously to enact a lockout upon the expiration of the 2016 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the league and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
And they have a short window – most players retire before age 40 and a 2020 estimate by the players union found that the average MLB career was 3.71 years, down more than a full year from the ...
A Toronto Blue Jays home game at Sahlen Field in Buffalo in July 2021. Major League Baseball returned to a full 162-game season for 2021, but some protocols and scheduling changes from the 2020 season remain in place, including shortened doubleheader games, and interleague games being played against teams from the corresponding region. [52]
The 2021 Major League Baseball season began on April 1, while the regular season ended on October 3. [1] The postseason began on October 5. The World Series then began on October 26 and ended on November 2 with the Atlanta Braves defeating the Houston Astros in six games to win their second title since moving to Atlanta.
In the midst of still-ongoing conversations about how to overcome a late-stage snag in bargaining came an announcement from Major League Baseball that another two regular season series would be ...
For all the vitriol, Major League Baseball owners and locked-out players have closed the gap in recent weeks and are negotiating on similar frameworks for a new collective bargaining agreement.
October 3: End of the Major League Baseball Regular season; October 22: The Houston Astros clinch a trip to the 2021 World Series and defeat the Boston Red Sox 5–0 to win the 2021 American League Championship Series in six games to make it 3 World Series trips in 5 Years. [85]
On October 31, 2024, Bob Costas announced that he was officially retiring from Major League Baseball play-by-play calling after 44 years. [76] This means that his final Major League Baseball broadcast as a play-by-play announcer was Game 4 of the 2024 American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals, airing on ...