Baseball players break out faceless avatars after MLB wipes their images from league site in lockout purge

NEW YORK — It’s Day 1 of the MLB lockout and the war between players and the league has already gotten spicy. Shortly after the owners locked the players out at midnight Thursday morning, the league website removed the names and images of all current players from its news content section as well as all images of current players entirely. On any roster page, every player’s image is now the same default blank player silhouette as part of the overhaul of MLB.com and official team sites — which now feature exactly zero stories about players in the union. League commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursd…

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