NEW YORK — After 99 days of back and forth between the players and the owners, Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association reached a five-year deal Thursday, promising a 2022 MLB season that, for months, had been in question.

It means there will be a full, 162-game season beginning April 7 — a week later than originally planned. Players head to spring training on Sunday.

The first two weeks of games that had been canceled will be made up with nine-inning doubleheaders.

One of the biggest contentions of the negotiations had been players’ salaries. The two sides agreed to a minimum player salary of $700,000 for 2022, with increases over each of the next five years. The minimum salary last season was $570,000.

“We made the mistake of playing without a Collective Bargaining Agreement in 1994, and it cost our fans and our clubs dearly,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said, referencing the players' strike that year. “We will not make that same mistake again.”

Baseball fans everywhere celebrated the deal. But those celebrations, perhaps, meant the most on East 161st Street in the Bronx.

Joseph Michilis and his twin brother, John, own Yankee Twin Eatery Bar, right across from Yankee Stadium. He relies on home games for business.

“Ecstatic,” Michilis said about the deal. “I want to jump off the walls. A ton of bricks off my shoulder. I know I would actually make a little bit of ends meet, so we can actually survive, the number one thing.”

In the bar area downstairs, Craig Mahoney has created a kind of "Yankee Church," if you will.

“I am still working on it,” Mahoney said. "This is my Sistine Chapel.” The mural is a painted timeline of Yankee history.

“We have great Yankees up top here, great Yankee moments on the bottom," he explained. "And my idea was to try to match the art style of each player to their era."

Mahoney said for many fans, his work has become a part of the experience of going to a game.

“There are people who come down here to have one quick beer just to have their picture taken in front of this, and then I have to be like, ‘It’s not finished yet,’” Mahoney said. He was amped up to hear a deal had been reached.

“We got the news, and they just saw me walk right out the door, and I walked right in front of the stadium and recorded a quick Instagram video, saying, 'Welcome back, baseball!” he said. “I honestly didn’t think I was going to be here until May. And then it’s like, not only is baseball back, it’s April 7. That’s four weeks from today. I got to move it now, I got stuff to do.”

Before every Yankee home game, you can find Mahoney outside on East 161st street, painting players in pinstripes. A full season for him means more opportunities for work.

“You’re talking thousands of people a night, walking by and seeing your stuff,” he said. Now, it’s a mad dash to get ready for that Opening Day madness.

“It’ll be like the North Pole in November around here,” Mahoney said with a laugh.

And while he's relieved to know he’ll have work, it’s the fan in him who is most excited for baseball to be back.

“It’s not just the sport itself and the team itself, it is the history and the tradition and part of something so much bigger than any of us, or even all of us together,” he said.

Mets fans, don’t worry. Mahoney said he does a lot of Tom Seaver paintings, too.

The Mets open April 7 on the road against the Washington Nationals. The Yankees open April 7 at home, hosting the Boston Red Sox.