MLB’s work stoppage is already having an impact — and not in a positive way.
After the owner’s instituted a lockout late Wednesday night when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired, it meant players no longer have access to team facilities, which may not sound significant in December, but it is to rehabbing players like the Yankees’ Jameson Taillon.
The right-hander, rehabbing from surgery to repair an ankle tendon, wrote on Twitter Thursday that he’s not able to have contact with the team’s medical department until the lockout ends.
“Since MLB chose to lock us out, I’m not able to work with our amazing team [of] Physical Therapists who have been leading my post-surgery care/progression,” he wrote.
Taillon continued kiddingly, “Now that I’m in charge of my own PT, what should my first order of business be? I’m thinking I’m done with the boot. It can go.”
Yankees pitcher Jameson Taillon can no longer rehab with the team’s medical staff.Corey SipkinA work stoppage was not required just because the CBA expired. The two sides could have continued to negotiate and the sport could have continued its offseason machinations, including the major league Rule 5 draft, which was scheduled for next week and has been suspended indefinitely — although teams already made roster moves to prepare for the draft, which is what led the Yankees to designate Clint Frazier, Tyler Wade and Rougned Odor when they did. All three are now on new teams.
Major League Baseball is officially in shutdown after its collective bargaining agreement ran out at midnight on Thursday. Charles Wenzelberg/New York PostBut as commissioner Rob Manfred said during a press conference Wednesday in Arlington, Texas, “people need pressure sometimes to get to an agreement.”
The 2022 season likely wouldn’t begin to be put in jeopardy unless the lockout drags on into February.
