{"id":489035,"date":"2026-02-19T01:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489035\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:06:08","slug":"sources-bruce-meyer-elected-executive-director-of-mlbpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489035\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Bruce Meyer elected executive director of MLBPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeff PassanFeb 19, 2026, 11:56 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>ESPN MLB insider
Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports”<\/p>\n

Multiple Authors<\/p>\n

The Major League Baseball Players Association elected Bruce Meyer as its new executive director Wednesday, sources told ESPN, replacing Tony Clark the day after he resigned amid scandal less than a year before the expiration of MLB’s collective-bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n

Meyer, previously the union’s deputy executive director, ascended to the top spot at a crucial moment for the MLBPA. With owners pushing for a salary cap and prepared to lock out the players Dec. 1 should they not reach a new deal, players are bracing for an extended work stoppage as they attempt to stave off the league’s efforts.<\/p>\n

Hired in 2018 after a much-criticized labor deal negotiated the year before, Meyer served as the lead negotiator for the union during the COVID pandemic and helped broker the 2022 labor deal that followed a 99-day lockout. A longtime lawyer who previously worked for the NHL, NBA and NFL, Meyer becomes the MLBPA’s sixth executive director.<\/p>\n

Clark resigned Tuesday following an internal investigation that revealed an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law, whom the union had hired in 2023. A federal investigation into the MLBPA concerning questions about its finances and governance prompted the union to hire an independent lawyer, whose inquiry exposed the inappropriate relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff PassanFeb 19, 2026, 11:56 AM CloseESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-489035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}