As the Major League Baseball season is set to begin, it seems like the league’s players are not happy with the leader ship of their player’s association and are demanding a major change.
According to a report from MLB insider Jeff Passan of ESPN, the majority of players want to deputy executive director Bruce Meyer fired and replaced with Harry Marino.
“Player leaders expressed frustration at Major League Baseball Players Association executives during a Zoom call Monday night, the culmination of a week in which players advocated for the ouster of the union’s chief labor negotiator, sources told ESPN,” Passan wrote for ESPN this week.
“On a call with dozens of player representatives from the major and minor league units of the union that lasted nearly three hours, a majority of players in an informal vote told MLBPA executive director Tony Clark they wanted to replace deputy executive director Bruce Meyer with Harry Marino, the lawyer who spearheaded the unionization efforts of minor league players, sources said.”
The move comes after a billion-dollar decrease in free-agent spending and an extended free-agency period from some of the league’s top stars, as Passan explains.
Clark was not willing to make the move while on the call. We’ll have to see if the change happens later.
[ESPN]
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