As the 2021 MLB season came to an end, so did the years-long Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that kept the players paid, owners happy, and executives bringing in money. For the first time since 1994, the unthinkable happened: there was a play stoppage in Major League Baseball. After the disaster that was the 2020 COVID shortened season, debates over player salaries, free agency, bargaining rights, rule changes, and much more will ravage both clubhouses and courtrooms as Major League Baseball finds itself at an important junction that will shape its future for decades to come. The league is modernizing whether ownership wants it to or not, but the question is: will the new CBA be a home run, or will the league strike out and tear itself apart. Play ball, delegates!