In other words, barring a last-minute pact, MLB will be in a lockout beginning Thursday. It’s avoiding doing damage to the season.” The pattern has become to control the timing of the labor dispute and try to minimize the prospect of actual disruption of the season. “I can’t believe there’s a single fan in the world who doesn’t understand that an offseason lockout that moves the process forward is different than a labor dispute that costs games,” Manfred said, per Evan Drellich at The Athletic.Īlso from that press conference, per Jeff Passan at ESPN, Manfred said, “I think we need to look at other sports. Strikes happen when players - the labor - withhold their services a lockout is when the owners shut things down.Ĭommissioner Rob Manfred at the owners meetings in Chicago on November 18 talked about the negotiations between players and owners, which seemed to be laying the foundation of a pending lockout. The main difference between a lockout and strike is who initiates it.
Most signs point to a lockout beginning Wednesday night, which would be the first labor stoppage in the sport since the 1994-95 strike.
This week could be relatively busy for a few days, before things get awfully quiet. We’ve known this for quite some time, but it seemed so abstract and far away in the future. Major League Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement, the document agreed upon by players and owners, which governs the sport, expires on December 1 at 8:59 p.m.
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