After days and days of negotiations, Major League Baseball and the Players Association would have reached an agreement on a new collective agreement on Thursday, and the next season would visibly be saved.
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At least that’s what the ESPN network suggested in the afternoon, through journalist Jeff Passan.
“Although the whole thing still needs to be ratified by both parties, it seems to be only a formality. Baseball is back,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
The day before, commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the campaign was minimally delayed until mid-April. Negotiations had however made enormous progress in recent days, but the leaders and the Players’ Association could not agree, among other things, on the file of a possible draft for international hopes. Remember that the last collective agreement ended on December 2 and the owners then declared a lockout.