Skubal to meet with 6 teams, including Mets, Dodgers and Padres, with December lockout looming

LAS VEGAS (AP) — With a lockout looming and team executives vowing to take a business-as-usual approach to the offseason, the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres are among six teams set to meet with top free-agent pitcher Tarik Skubal.Skubal's planned meetings were disclosed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because those details had not been announced. The person did not disclose the other teams.Baseball's collective bargaining agreement is scheduled to expire at 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 1, and management is expected to immediately initiate the sport's 10th work stoppage since 1972.“From my perspective, I look at this as a business-as-usual offseason until they tell us otherwise,” Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns said. “So we're going through this as though we're going to have a full, complete offseason, and I think that's the best way to operate.”Major League Baseball has proposed a