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MLB Lockout “Won’t Affect” 2022 Season for Somerset Patriots

With Major League Baseball having locked out its players last week in what figures to be a long, grueling renegotiation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, many are wondering what affect,…

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With Major League Baseball having locked out its players last week in what figures to be a long, grueling renegotiation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, many are wondering what affect, if any, the lockout have on affiliated minor league baseball, should the lockout bleed into next spring.

According to Somerset Patriots General Manager Patrick McVerry there will be no affect.

The Patriots posted a statement from McVerry earlier this weekend addressing the lockout.

The Patriots are not the only Yankees minor league affiliate to publish a statement since the lockout started. New York's Triple-A affiliate in Scranton Wilkes-Barre also put out a similar statement that the season will go on as planned.

The New York Mets also put out a similar statement through their minor league affiliates, including the Patriots Double-A rivals, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies.

Michael Cohen is the News and Sports Director at Fox Sports Radio New Jersey and Magic 98.3 FM, as well as a radio production assistant with Fox and Magic in New Jersey. He started his career in Somerset in 2018 initially as a news fill-in at WCTC 1450 AM, and soon moved up to higher responsibilities in the ensuing years, assuming News & Sports Director title in 2021Prior to his time with Fox Sports New Jersey, Michael was play-by-play voice for New Jersey Jackals baseball, and as well as play-by-play and color for the College of Staten Island basketball (men and women), softball and baseball. Michael began his career as a news and sportswriter with the Jersey Journal of Hudson County.