Orioles Players Join Social Media Protest In Day 1 Of MLB Lockout

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Just aft the timepiece struck midnight Thursday, Major League Baseball locked retired the ballplayers, with the league bureau and players relation incapable to scope a woody connected a caller corporate bargaining agreement.

In short, the woody establishing the wage and moving conditions for the adjacent shot play expired, bringing astir a enactment stoppage for the archetypal clip successful 26 years.

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One of the much bizarre broadside effects of the stalemate: Teams crossed the league scrubbed their websites of each images and stories associated with idiosyncratic players, rendering their rosters a database of names with blank, shot cap-wearing silhouettes successful spot of subordinate pictures.  MLB said teams are constricted successful the types of contented they tin show online until a caller woody with the players national is reached.

Welcome to the 2021 MLB lockout. https://t.co/EQMXVYU2pZ has removed each stories and images of existent players connected each teams’ 40-man rosters. Here’s a look astatine the Orioles’ roster. I cognize radical person called it faceless before, but this clip that assertion is literal. pic.twitter.com/64ZfLGyDAB

— Dan Connolly (@danconnolly2016) December 2, 2021

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Players crossed the league are present utilizing the faceless images connected societal media arsenic a signifier of protest, apt a effect to what they spot arsenic the league minimizing their contributions to the sport.

Orioles archetypal baseman Trey Mancini and pitchers John Means, Isaac Mattson and Zac Lowther person exchanged their mean illustration pictures connected the level for the anonymous grey ballplayers.

#NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/yNpJTgEXCo

— Zac Lowther (@ZacLowther) December 2, 2021

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Just earlier the corporate bargaining statement was acceptable to expire, Means tweeted a representation of a T-shirt with the connection “Brotherhood” crossed the front, nary uncertainty a motion of national solidarity.

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— John Means (@JMeans25) December 2, 2021

CBS Baltimore Staff