MLB Lockout: Here's what you should know as players reject final offer before league-imposed deadline

Tempe Diablo Stadium SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - On March 1, Baseball players have rejected a final offer by Major League Baseball to end the ongoing lockout.The offer was made by MLB officials about 90 minutes before a self-imposed 5 p.m.

deadline for a labor deal to avoid canceled games. MLB commissioner Robn Manfred said the league and union have not made plans for future negotiations.Read More: Players reject MLB's final offer to end lockout before league's deadline to avoid canceled gamesHere's what you should know about the situation, as it stands now.MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has announced he is canceling the first two series of the season that was set to begin March 31, dropping the schedule from 162 games to likely 156 games at most.Players won't be paid for missed games.With the Cactus League, spring training was supposed to start on Feb.

26. The Grapefruit League was also supposed to start on the same date, according to their website.On the Cactus League website, it still states, as of the afternoon of March 1, that spring training games would start no earlier than March 5.Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired, and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day.Teams decided to force the long-anticipated confrontation during an offseason rather than risk players walking out during the summer, as they did in 1994.

Players and owners had successfully reached four consecutive agreements without a work stoppage, but they have been accelerating toward a clash for more than two years."We believe that an offseason lockout is the best mechanism to protect the 2022 season,".