MLB Players Association bracing for lockout before 2027 season: 'All but guaranteed'

MESA, Ariz. — The MLB Players Association is bracing for a league-imposed lockout when their current collective bargaining agreement ends on Dec. 1.

“I think a lockout is all but guaranteed at the end of the agreement,” Bruce Meyer said outside the Cubs’ spring training facilities Wednesday afternoon, before he was unanimously elected interim executive director by the MLBPA executive board. “The league has pretty much said that. Their strategy in bargaining has always been to put as much...