It took way too long, but baseball is back.
MLB owners instituted a lockout back in December and waited 43 days to even reach out to the players. But after some of the more contentious labor negotiations we’ve seen in professional sports, the league and the players union were able to reach a tentative agreement on Thursday.
With every collective bargaining agreement, there’s change to the sport. And MLB especially has looked to experiment with the game to make it more appealing to a wider audience. Whether those changes will work towards that goal is debatable, but we’re about to find out.
Here are some of the rule changes included in the new CBA.
