{"id":66737,"date":"2026-02-19T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/mlbpa-replaces-chief-tony-clark-after-inappropriate-relationship-with-sister-in-law\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:16:46","slug":"mlbpa-replaces-chief-tony-clark-after-inappropriate-relationship-with-sister-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/mlbpa-replaces-chief-tony-clark-after-inappropriate-relationship-with-sister-in-law\/","title":{"rendered":"MLBPA replaces chief Tony Clark after inappropriate relationship with sister-in-law"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Bruce Meyer promoted to interim executive director<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>New labor deal negotiations with owners looming<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bruce Meyer was promoted to interim executive director of the baseball players\u2019 association on Wednesday, a day after Tony Clark\u2019s forced resignation. It was a move for continuity ahead of the likely start in April of what figures to be contentious collective bargaining with team owners.<\/p>\n<p>Clark is a former All-Star first baseman who had headed the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) since 2013. He resigned on Tuesday, just months ahead of the expected start of bargaining for a new labor contract. The current deal expires on 1 December.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/19\/mlbpa-replaces-chief-tony-clark-after-inappropriate-relationship-with-sister-in-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Meyer promoted to interim executive director New labor deal negotiations with owners looming Bruce Meyer was promoted to interim executive director of the baseball players\u2019 association on Wednesday, a day after Tony Clark\u2019s forced resignation. It was a move for continuity ahead of the likely start in April of what figures to be contentious &#8230; <a title=\"MLBPA replaces chief Tony Clark after inappropriate relationship with sister-in-law\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/mlbpa-replaces-chief-tony-clark-after-inappropriate-relationship-with-sister-in-law\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MLBPA replaces chief Tony Clark after inappropriate relationship with sister-in-law\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}