Bruce Meyer has been unanimously elected the new executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN. He’ll take over for Tony Clark, who surprisingly resigned yesterday as news emerged that he had an “inappropriate” relationship with his sister-in-law.
Drellich will just be an interim director, per Evan Drellich of The Athletic, but is expected to hold his job at least through the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations. The current CBA expires on December 1st and another lockout is widely expected. The last lockout dragged into March, so it seems Meyer is positioned to potentially lead the union for a year or more, despite the interim tag.
More to come.
