Major League Baseball and the gamers’ affiliation finalized their collective bargaining settlement by the 2026 season on Tuesday, 14 months after reaching a memorandum of understanding for a deal that ended a 99-day lockout.

The settlement, which expires at 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 1, 2026, runs 426 pages, up from 359 within the deal that ended on Dec. 1, 2021.

This yr’s settlement took almost twice as lengthy to draft and finalize because the 2016-21 deal, which wanted seven months, 29 days.

MLB and the union did not draft a remaining settlement after their 1985 strike settlement, working by 1989 on their 1980 collective bargaining settlement as modified by their 1981 strike settlement and the 1985 memorandum of understanding.

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