In December 2021, Major League Baseball announced a lockout halting all baseball activities until further notice and basically locked players out of their training facilities. 

The date has passed in which catchers and pitchers should have reported to their spring training facility, February 23rd. Since then, Spring Training games have been canceled. Now, the commissioner of baseball has canceled the first week of the regular season as well.

The players union, an organization that looks over players, has offered deals toward the MLB. Many of which have been declined. The MLB has also offered a lot of deals towards the players union many of which, yet again have been denied.

Many baseball teams are also struggling with the ongoing lockout. Trades between players cannot occur so many teams are looking ahead with free agents and trying to bring deals to them once the lockout ends. 

It is a ¨Do-or-D¨ topic between the MLB and players union. This has happened before in 1990 when they could not make a deal and regular season games were pushed back a week to nearly mid-March. This also delayed the postseason by a week. 

A deal could be made tomorrow,  next week, or never. But the battles between the MLB and the players union will continue until a deal benefiting both is made and this season can commence. 

As a fan, I’m fed up with this back and forth.  Both of these groups need to be willing to compromise and understand fans like me will go find something else to do – maybe college baseball, maybe the Owlz who open up play in Windsor soon.

Here’s hoping that MLB players and owners get their act together, work together, and get us a season we can be excited about.