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The lamest threat in baseball history died a quick death Sunday afternoon.

No, the players won’t be boycotting spring training, the Players Association clarified in a statement, refuting the words of its own star agent Brodie Van Wagenen.

“Recent press reports have erroneously suggested that the Players Association has threatened a ‘boycott’ of spring training,” the statement read. “Those reports are false. No such threat has been made, nor has the union recommended such a course of action.”

It was Van Wagenen of CAA who wrote last week, in a statement on Twitter: “A boycott of Spring Training may be a starting point, if behavior doesn’t change.”

Van Wagenen, who represents free agent Todd Frazier as well as Mets Yoenis Cespedes, Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard among many others, also openly questioned whether teams were colluding with one another, an egregious violation of the CBA if proven true.

Tension between the players and owners has heightened as a result of the extremely slow-moving free-agent market as well as commissioner Rob Manfred’s desire to institute pace-of-play rules changes.

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