DALLAS, TX (SNN-TV) – Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players’ Association have broken off negotiations with the current Collective Bargaining Agreement set to expire at midnight tonight.
All indications are that the owners will impose a lockout beginning tomorrow, which would halt all free agent signings and trades. The off-season activity had taken on a somewhat frenzied pace in the past week, as players and clubs tried to make as many deals as possible before the proverbial music stops and all player movement will freeze.
The two sides have been in Dallas all week, and have had a series of negotiating sessions. However, all reports indicate that no progress was made and the lockout will happen.
This would be the 9th work stoppage in MLB history and the first since the 1994-1995 strike.
