Baseball is back. Major League Baseball’s 99-day lockout is over. MLB and the players’ association reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement Thursday, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Better yet, we’ll get a full 162-game season. It was the second-longest work stoppage in baseball history, but the sport will get back up and running in a hurry. […]

Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. There will be no MLB games until at least April 14. After talks between Major League Baseball and the MLBPA broke down on Wednesday, the league canceled the second week of the 2022 regular season. How far apart are the two sides in negotiating a new collective bargaining […]

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball launched a $1 million fund Tuesday to support spring training workers impacted by canceled games, matching the amount of the fund the players’ association announced last week. MLB said the money will be administered by teams to part-time and seasonal workers based on financial need. Eligible groups include concessionaires, grounds crew, security, clubhouse and […]

ESPN MLB Insider Kiley McDaniel covers MLB prospects, the MLB Draft and more, including trades and free agency. Has worked for four MLB teams. ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Fallout from Major League Baseball’s lockout of the players could have far-reaching implications on the trade and free […]

Major League Baseball deputy commissioner Dan Halem and MLB Players Association attorney Bruce Meyer plan to have an informal one-on-one meeting Thursday to resume talks amid baseball’s work stoppage, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The meeting, which will take place in New York between Halem and Meyer — the lead negotiators for both parties — would mark the first […]

ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Nine days into a marathon negotiating session that left all involved weary and worn, Major League Baseball and the MLBPA entered the bargaining room early Tuesday morning with a chance to save Opening Day. MLB was pushing the union to finalize a […]

In this edition of the On The Rox podcast, Denver Post sportswriters Kyle Newman and Patrick Saunders break down the cancellation of MLB Opening Day as the lockout wiped out the first two series of the 2022 season. How many games will the Rockies and MLB lose before a new collective bargaining agreement is reached between the owners and the […]

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Union came to the bargaining table Tuesday with the hope of hammering out a new collective bargaining agreement to salvage the start of the season. They struck out. After the players union rejected MLB’s “best and final offer,” Commissioner Rob Manfred announced baseball would cancel at least six regular-season games. It marks the […]

Senior Writer, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine Author of “The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron” Author of “Juicing the Game” Baseball’s offseason has now entered what is supposed to be the preseason, the clean-slate rebirth, the start of spring training and the new calendar. But commissioner Rob Manfred’s so-called “defensive lockout” has been very much offensive. There is […]

JUPITER, Fla. — With less than two days before Major League Baseball’s deadline to reach a labor deal to salvage opening day on March 31 and the sides far apart, players were unsure whether they will break off talks. Both sides made moves Saturday, but the union was upset with management’s response. The union staff planned to discuss with players […]