Baseball

The former Seibu star will reportedly earn $16 million in 2022 and $10 million in each of the 2023 and 2024 seasons.

Spring training camps will open on March 13, and a full 162-game regular season is set to begin on April 7.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said the 2022 season would not start until April 14 at the earliest after the latest negotiations failed to yield a breakthrough.

The fund will be administered by teams to individuals based on financial need and will be available to part-time and seasonal workers impacted by the ongoing labor dispute.

Muncy says he has recovered from his elbow injury and expects to be in the lineup at the start of the season.

Major League Baseball described negotiations with its locked-out players as "deadlocked" after a meeting on Sunday during which it said the union presented a proposal that "backtracked" on some issues. The two sides met in New York for the first time since Tuesday, when MLB ...

Opening Day, originally scheduled for March 31, has already been pushed back.

This is the ninth work stoppage in MLB history, and 2022 becomes the first MLB season since 1995 to lose games over a labor dispute.

In a statement, the five-time World Series winner indicated that his reason for leaving was because he was unhappy in the direction the team was taking.