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The two sides were so far apart on so many issues I am a little surprised they reached an agreement before July.
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reached a tentative agreement on a new collective-bargaining agreement Thursday, ending the league's 99-day lockout of the players and salvaging a 162-game season, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.
With the end of the second-longest work stoppage in the game's history, spring training camps will open on Sunday, free-agent signings and trades will abound, and baseball will attempt to return to some semblance of normalcy after months of fraught negotiations.
The two sides were so far apart on so many issues I am a little surprised they reached an agreement before July.