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MLB Lockout 2027: What Happens to Minor League and College Baseball? | BA Explains
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MLB Lockout 2027: What Happens to Minor League and College Baseball? | BA Explains
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Welcome to BA Explains, Baseball America's new series that explores our game's most interesting questions, history and current events. On this edition of the series, BA Editor-in-Chief J.J. Cooper explains what will happen in minor league and college baseball if (and most likely, when) MLB enters a stoppage over its latest labor negotiations with the MLBPA.
0:00 - Welcome to BA Explains
Minor League Baseball
1:59 - MLB vs. MiLB CBAs and other minor league nuances.
5:12 - MiLB during a MLBPA strike will be business as usual.
7:13 - Minor League Baseball fans, attendance and related trends during a strike/lockout.
College Baseball
8:40 - What happens to college baseball during a MLB stoppage?
9:12 - “College baseball will be, for many fans, the only game in town.”
10:22 - The bigger questions to ponder as a MLB lockout looms.
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