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• TGI Mailday

Got cards in the mail from a few different sources today, helping it shape up into a pretty nice Friday afternoon. Let's whip up a quick post out of 'em.As mentioned a couple weeks ago in the Tony Clark post, I'm working on a set of 1998 Bowman refractor reprints. Here we see a couple young sluggers from 1990 Bowman, secured from different ebay sellers coincidentally showing up at the same time.On...2026
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• Why Daniel Murphy thinks the Dodgers aren’t evil, a lost season isn’t a certainty and the new-look Mets are ‘different’

The former Mets second baseman was even under consideration recently to replace Tony Clark, who resigned as head of the MLBPA....2026
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2444: To Challenge, or Not to Challenge?

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a player with legs like a centaur, a knuckleballer’s sore subject, Arte Moreno’s thoughts on whether winning matters to fans, a response from the barback who gave free drinks to a fellow listener, and a new perspective on Tony Clark’s reportedly inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law. Then (45:17) […]...2026
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• Hammering the Union
Molly Knight writes on the incompetence of Tony Clark as the leader of the Major League Baseball Players Association. She seems to get this bit about the owners wrong, however: The owners, smelling player blood in the water this week after Clark’s self-immolation, leaked to Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman of the New York Post […]...2026
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• Peter Schmuck: Tony Clark fiasco has put the players union in a vulnerable position

I don’t have the time or inclination to fret about the tawdry scandal that led to Major League Baseball Players Association (MLPBA) head Tony Clark’s stunning resignation and – I suspect – neither does the union. Both his personal issues and a troublesome investigation into the union’s finances could not have surfaced at a much […]...2026
• Orioles’ Bassitt on Clark’s resignation, contract negotiations, salary cap

SARASOTA—Chris Bassitt, the 36-year-old right-handed starter who was signed last week, is an executive subcommittee member of the Major League Baseball Players Association. On Tuesday, Tony Clark, the longtime union head, resigned less than 10 months before the expiration of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Bassitt spoke on Wednesday about Clark’s resignation, the future of the […]...2026
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• MLBPA Director Tony Clark to resign, per report

“Please, no more Braves injury news,” you all collectively begged the Large Language Model in the sky that is in charge of simulating our collective existence. Well, it heard your entreaties, and has responded in kind: It’s a bombshell of a Tuesday morning news drop, but at least it’s not, “Matt Olson and Chris Sale […]...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: July 21

This White Sox core (Luis Alomá, Minnie Miñoso, Chico Carrasquel) help restore the team to winning ways in 1951. | Curt Gunther/Keystone View Company/Archive Photos/Getty Images A single loss tumbles the South Siders down the standings 1917 After splitting the first two of a five-game series at Comiskey Park, the AL-leading White Sox battled the second-place Red Sox over 15 innings, with t...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones blasts 400th career homer

The Braves legend reaches a major milestone. Braves Franchise History 2008: Atlanta Braves 3B Chipper Jones hits his 400th career home run, becoming the third switch-hitter to reach this level, after Eddie Murray and Mickey Mantle. Ricky Nolasco gives up the homer. Jones has a four-hit game to move his average to .418, the top mark in the majors at this point of the season. The Braves top the Mar...2025
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• Braves News: Daysbel Hernandez, rock bottom on offense, more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Wednesday Well the Braves lost yet another game in which the pitching did it’s job and the offense completely failed to do its part. I am generally not a “fire the coach” guy, but I think the Braves should fire Tim Hyers, their new hitting coach they brought in this offseason. It wasn’t insane to try som...2025
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• Outside The Confines: A Royals welcome

Photo by Ali Overstreet/MLB Photos via Getty Images A look ahead to the trade deadline. The Royals call up their top prospect. The Red Sox may be selling. And other news from around baseball. Good morning. The Cubs are on pace to win 102 games this season and have the best record in the National League. The Rockies have won two in a row and clinched their first series win since last Sept...2025
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• Clark: Clubs 'blowing out' pitchers with max usage
Union chief Tony Clark said Friday that it's up to MLB teams to change how pitchers are being used in order to reduce injuries....2024
• Today in White Sox History: July 21

Twelve years after Jackie Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier, Pumpsie Green took the field in Chicago against the White Sox. Pumpsie Green accomplishes a last “first,” on the South Side 1917 After splitting the first two of a five-game series at Comiskey Park, the AL-leading White Sox battled the second-place Red Sox over 15 innings, with the game declared a 5-5 tie on account of darkness...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 18, 2024

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The second half approaches. Kris Bubic is expected to play a key role for the Royals in the second half: A lot will rest on the shoulders of the stars: Bobby Witt Jr. and Salvador Perez in the lineup, as well as starters Cole Ragans and Seth Lugo in the rotation. There’s a case to be made here for others in the Royals’ lineup, too – Maikel Garcia, Vinn...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, June 17

Don Kessinger had a day | Photo by: 1970 SPX/Diamond Images via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Dom Kessinger’s perfect day and many other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and ...2024
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black addresses the “pandemic” of pitcher injuries

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Colorado Rockies News and Notes for Monday, April 15, 2024 Every day, in the early part of the 2024 MLB season, it’s the same. Wake up in the morning. Check the headlines. Notice another pitcher is probably headed to the IL with an arm issue. For Colorado Rockies fans, it feels a bit like the rest of baseball is finally catching up to a 2023 that saw first ...2024
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• Scott Miller's Starting 9: Fifty-Six Reasons to Pay Attention in Spring Training
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• Former Mets Martyr Omar Minaya a Crucial Architect of 2015 Breakout
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• Josh Hamilton's Free Pass Impacts Angels, Helps Set Stage for Bloody CBA Battle
2015

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"Tony Clark issues forceful response to Rob Manfred about free-agent signing deadline"

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"MLBPA's Tony Clark expects work stoppage after league's CBA expires next year"

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"Union chief Tony Clark said the league's decision to reduce the length of the pitch clock has contributed to a recent series of significant pitcher injuries."

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"MLBPA boss Tony Clark says union will 'never' accept a salary cap as owners decry spending by Mets, Padres"

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"MLB expansion? MLBPA chief Tony Clark hopeful league can get to 'a world of 32 teams'"

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"Commissioner Rob Manfred and the union leader Tony Clark both addressed the news media ahead of Game 1, discussing labor negotiations as well as Atlanta’s “tomahawk chop."

2020
"The Major League Baseball Players Association "resoundingly rejected" the latest proposal from the league, union executive director Tony Clark said in a statement Thursday."

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"Currently, former player Tony Clark serves in that role."

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"MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark says teams aren't signing free agents because they are in "a race to the bottom."

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"MLB players union boss Tony Clark backs players who want to protest during anthem"

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"They sit across the negotiating table as adversaries, but Rob Manfred and Tony Clark are also partners."

2015
"" After Cowherd's comments sparked outrage, the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, Tony Clark, issued a statement regarding the inflammatory commentary, according to Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal: As a veteran of fifteen MLB seasons, I can assure you that our sport is infinitely more complex than some in the media would have you believe."

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"I had wanted to meet with Tony Clark since my becoming MLB's first ambassador for inclusion."

• Orioles’ Bassitt on Clark’s resignation, contract negotiations, salary cap
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• a couple cheap cards

I received this Tony Clark card in the mail yesterday, coincidentally the same day he shockingly resigned as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. My understanding is that he was being investigated for financial curiosities, and that investigation revealed naughty emails with his wife's sister, whom he had given a job with the MLBPA. These days, it seems powerful peo...2026
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• No. 2 baseball union official Bruce Meyer shaken by events that led to Clark's resignation
The No. 2 official of the baseball players' association was shaken by the events culminating in the resignation of union head Tony Clark and said the change in leadership will not alter bargaining preparations ahead of talks in which Major League Baseball is expected to push for a salary cap. “Just on a personal level I think we’re all fairly devasted by things that have happened in the last 48, ...2026
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• Tony Clark issues forceful response to Rob Manfred about free-agent signing deadline

During a Thursday afternoon appearance on New York sports radio station WFAN, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred once again suggested the league could benefit...2026
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• Today in White Sox History: July 21
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• NFLPA leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigns over multiple issues: What happened and what is next

Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images After weeks of reporting Lloyd Howell Jr. has resigned as the Executive Director of the NFLPA. Here’s why, and here is what is next Thursday night, Lloyd Howell Jr., the Executive Director of the NFL Players Association, submitted his resignation. Howell’s tenure at the NFLPA had come under pressure in recent days, thanks to reporting from various outlet...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 16, 2025

Brett Davis-Imagn Images Wait so how many more days without Royals baseball? Check out this beast of a draft recap from Jared Perkins over at Inside the Crown. The overall first impression is strong, according to the prospect connoisseur. Overall, this draft was good given the overall down year for a draft class and where they were picking. While day two wasn’t as exciting, it was the day ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Swing, swing, swing

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The All-Star Game ended in a “swing-off.” Big Dumper won the Home Run Derby. The Rays are sold, the draft is over and other news items from All-Star Week. Good morning. The National League beat the American League at the All-Star Game 6-6 after a “swing-off,” a mini home run derby where the game’s MVP Kyle Schwarber hit three home runs. Matt Snyder wri...2025
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• 'Institutionalized collusion': MLBPA fights cap talk
Calling it "institutionalized collusion," MLBPA executive director Tony Clark said he remains opposed to a salary cap after the CBA expires following the 2026 season....2025
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• Today in White Sox History: July 21
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• NFLPA leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigns over multiple issues: What happened and what is next
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• This Day in Braves History: Chipper Jones blasts 400th career homer
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• Outside The Confines: Opening Week is here!

Photo by Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The pre-season ends this week, real baseball is almost here! Well, friends, we have officially made it. This is the last Monday without baseball! (Well, regular season baseball. that is.) It’s so thrilling to realize that this is the week baseball begins in earnest and we can switch from saying “Spring training doesn’t count” to “it’s ...2024
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• Braves News: First spring game, infield preview, more

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday Michael Harris looked very ready for the season on Saturday, as he homered and doubled. Spencer Strider looked good as well, with his usual strikeout-heavy results through two innings, featuring his new breaking ball that he says he will take into the season. One player I want to focus on is Nacho Alvarez, however, ...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Snakes alive!

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images The first two games of the World Series have been completed and the signs are pointing to a classic battle in the Fall Classic. And speaking of signs . . . Plus other news from the Word Series and MLB. Good morning. We’ve got a tied World Series and a really classic Game 1. Game 3 goes tonight. Are the Snakes still alive? Or will the Rangers continue t...2023
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• The MLBPA wants to add a few seconds to the pitch clock in the postseason
Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images This is a really bad idea — let’s hope they don’t do it. MLB’s pitch clock, officially called the “pitch timer,” has resulted in a vast improvement in the pace of play in MLB games this year. The average time of game has dropped from 3:06 in 2022 to 2:40 this year, 26 minutes fewer. It’s the shortest average game length since 1984, nearly 40 years ago. T...2023
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• Braves News: Braves are back, pitch clock weirdness, more
Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday The best news of the day for Braves fans is that Braves’ baseball is back! The Braves played their first spring training game and most of the players that have the most present and future significance looked good. Matt Olson and Ronald Acuna in particular looked good at the plate. Meanwhile, notab...2023
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• MLBPA launches organizing drive for minor leaguers
Tony Clark, Executive Director of the MLB Players Association | Getty Images The union leadership is looking to represent minor league ballplayers. Late Sunday night, it was revealed that the Major League Baseball Players Association has begun an organization drive that would make the players’ union the official representatives of minor league ballplayers through collective bargaining. Jo...2022
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• Rosenthal And Drellich: MLB Season Unlikely To Begin Before May
Commissioner Rob Manfred met with Tony Clark of the Players’ Union to discuss many of the potential issues sure to arise as a result of the coronavirus shutdown. Though many particulars of the 2020 season are being taken into consideration, no decision is expected in the near-term about the official start to the 2020 season.…...2020
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• a couple cheap cards
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• How MLB players union is pivoting after Tony Clark resignation scandal

The MLB Players Association may not have an official leader at the moment, but the players are doubling down on the strength of the union....2026
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• Outside The Confines: A Royals welcome
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 3, 2025

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images Jac Caglianone has big league power. Anne Rogers writes that Jonathan India is turning heads in camp. “Leadoff guy,” India said. “[I bring] a lot of fire and a lot of passion. A lot of energy. I’m an energy guy and hopefully they feed off that, because I’ll set the tempo for everyone.” India’s speed on the basepaths makes him the pe...2025
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• Outside The Confines: The stars at night are big and bright . . .

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The All-Star Game and Home Run Derby took place this week. As if that wasn’t enough news, so did the MLB Draft. Also, announcer rankings. What are we going to do today with no baseball? Anthony Castrovince offers his thoughts and has a recap of the American League’s 5-3 win over the National League in the All-Star Game. Do-Hyoung Park ...2024
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1

Ronel Blanco completed the first no-hitter of the season! | Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Diving into the best and worst performances of the first week of the season The first week of the MLB season was full of action, including a no-hitter, a walk-off grand slam and various hot and cold starts from a variety of teams. We’re here to give you the top performances and moments of the week, ...2024
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• Braves News: Ronald Acuna Jr. injury, Chris Sale sharp again and more

Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports Monday could turn into a waiting game off the field. As another week begins for the Braves in Spring Training in Florida, the eyes of Braves country will actually be fixed on Los Angeles in nervous anticipation. Ronald Acuna Jr. is scheduled to receive further evaluation on his right knee from the same doctor who repaired his torn ACL in 2021. While irritati...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Snakes alive!
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• Rob Manfred says league will discuss playoff format

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Rob Manfred said that the league will discuss MLB’s playoff format, however there doesn’t appear to be much momentum to change it. For the second year in a row, there has been a lot of discussion over Major League Baseball’s playoff format. The league shifted to a 12-team system in their latest CBA and many have expressed concern that it doesn’t do eno...2023
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• Colin Cowherd, ESPN Part Ways After Comments on Dominican MLB Players
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• MLB players stand firm, 'resoundingly' reject plan
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• Sources: MLB makes 60-game offer to players
MLB has sent a proposal for a 60-game season with full prorated pay to the players' union, sources told ESPN. It's a sign of progress in negotiations, along with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and MLBPA executive director Tony Clark having met recently....2020
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• California Governor Bans Smokeless Tobacco at Baseball Parks
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• Rosenthal And Drellich: MLB Season Unlikely To Begin Before May
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• Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Does the NFL Have a Dipping Problem?
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• Ken Griffey Jr.: MLB Relying on 'The Kid' to Make Baseball Cool for Kids Again
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• MLBPA's Clark wants to see Rose reinstated
It isn't his call, but Tony Clark, the executive director of baseball's players union, said Tuesday he would be in favor of commissioner Rob Manfred reinstating Pete Rose....2015
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 20, 2024

Did you wake up early for the Seoul Series? By the time this post goes up, there will be MLB action that counts well underway in Seoul. What do you think of the pre-season regular season games? If you are in a fantasy league, are you allowed to put Dodgers and Padres in lineups now, or is your league waiting til the rest of MLB gets underway? Reliever Jake Brentz has a left hamstring strain that w...2024
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• TGI Mailday
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• Ronda Rousey, Gina Carano schedule landmark fight | MLBPA's Tony Clark resigns

Plus, Sam Quinn delivers biannual NBA front office rankings...2026
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• MLBPA executive director Tony Clark resigns after investigation as lockout looms

This comes just ahead of spring training games....2026
• Reports: MLBPA executive director Tony Clark resigning as lockout looms

This comes just ahead of spring training games....2026
• Report: MLBPA executive director Tony Clark to resign as lockout looms

This comes just ahead of spring training games....2026
• Today in White Sox History: July 21
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• Royals Rumblings - News for July 16, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Swing, swing, swing
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• Outside The Confines: A Royals welcome
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 3, 2025
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• Peter Schmuck: Tony Clark fiasco has put the players union in a vulnerable position
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• MLBPA names Bruce Meyer interim executive director in wake of Tony Clark scandal

The Major League Baseball Players Association has its Tony Clark replacement....2026
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• How MLB players union is pivoting after Tony Clark resignation scandal
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• The Opener: MLBPA, Free Agents, Braves
Here are three things we’ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world today: 1. MLBPA to regroup following Tony Clark’s departure: Yesterday, the baseball world was rocked when MLBPA chief Tony Clark abruptly resigned from his position atop the union amid a scandal involving an “inappropriate relationship” with his sister-in-law, whom he hired…...2026
• MLBPA head Tony Clark calls out safety concerns for players amid NBA gambling scandal

From the Black Sox to Pete Rose to Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, baseball has endured its fair share of gambling scandals throughout its history....2025
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• MLBPA chief: NBA scandal raises safety concerns
MLBPA chief Tony Clark said concerns for player safety are "greater" in the wake of another sports gambling scandal hitting the NBA this week....2025
• NFLPA leader Lloyd Howell Jr. resigns over multiple issues: What happened and what is next
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• MLB Roundup: Week 1
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• Outside The Confines: Baseball is underway

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images News from Opening Day weekend and MLB. It’s the home opener! (Weather permitting.) It’s also April Fools Day. In honor of that, all the links will take you to Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” (No, they won’t.) The City of Oakland have delivered their list of demands to allow the Athletics to play for the next three years at the Coliseu...2024
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