{"id":221742,"date":"2022-03-10T22:46:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-mlb-rule-changes-agreed-upon-in-the-new-cba"},"modified":"2022-03-10T22:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:46:40","slug":"the-mlb-rule-changes-agreed-upon-in-the-new-cba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-mlb-rule-changes-agreed-upon-in-the-new-cba","title":{"rendered":"The MLB Rule Changes Agreed Upon in the New CBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The league&#8217;s owners and players finally reached an agreement to begin the 2022 season, with several key changes on the way. MLB Lockout Ends with Agreement Between the MLBPA and Owners (TV-G; 0:27) Major League Baseball finally ended its lockout on Thursday, reaching a reported agreement with the players association on a new collective bargaining agreement. With the 2022 season now slated to begin on April 7, it&#8217;s time to take stock of just how different the game will look with a spate of rule changes on their way in. Here&#8217;s a breakdown of the changes being adopted for the new season, per ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan : Universal designated hitter Playoffs expanded to 12 teams Limits to the number of time a player can be optioned to the minor leagues in one season A draft lottery to discourage tanking Draft pick inducements meant to discourage service time manipulation The most impactful on-field change is clearly the adoption of the DH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league&#8217;s owners and players finally reached an agreement to begin the 2022 season, with several key changes on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,124],"tags":[220,122,202,11,58],"class_list":["post-221742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nfl","tag-baseball","tag-lottery","tag-mlb","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}