Baseball avoided a long strike but also deteriorated its regular season.
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ajor League Baseball The lockout introduced by the owners on December 1 has ended. The season now begins on April 7th. As far as I can tell from what has been publicly reported, here are the key takeaways from what the owners and the players agreed to:
• The 2022 season consists of 162 games. It will run three days longer to make up for the delayed launch, and doubleheaders will be added to make up for the remaining canceled games.
• A new playoff format expanding from ten teams to twelve. There will be no one-game playoffs: regular-season ties will be resolved by
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