MLB Lockout 101: In-depth guide to likely work stoppage and what it means for free agency, 2027 season, more

Major League Baseball's players and owners are in the process of negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement, or CBA. The CBA is the accord that governs the working relationship between the players, as represented by their union, the MLBPA, and the clubs. It covers pretty much every aspect of that relationship that you can imagine, all the way from the overarching salary and payroll structure to daily meal money and days off during the season.

Not surprisingly, it's the economic platform of the game that's the toughest to negotiate because that is always, in essence, a fight over money, or how the league's substantial revenues will be divided up between teams and players. That's keenly relevant right now because players and owners are sparring over whether or not MLB will have a cap on salaries moving forward. The owners have renewed their push for a salary cap after not aggressively (or at least not this aggressively) pursuing one since the 1994-95 players' strike.

Matters are such that the owners are expected to implement a lockout of the players after the current CBA expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on Dec. 1 of this year, or a little more than a month…

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