MLB player contracts expire at midnight. Here's why that could lead to a lockout.
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Major League Baseball faces a possible shutdown for the first time in decades, with team owners and ballplayers still at odds over a new collective bargaining agreement. The current pact expires just before midnight on Wednesday, opening the door for owners to call a lockout — management's version of a strike.
Representatives from both sides have been meeting privately in Irving, Texas, for days in an effort to reach a deal on issues including player pay, anti-competitiveness clauses and free agency rules. Yet progress has been fitful at best.
"Hearing the tone in negotiations, the lockout seems like that's a very likely scenario, let's say that," Max Scherzer, a member of the players' union executive subcommittee, told CBS Sports on Wednesday.
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