MLBPA Adds Former MLBers Rick Helling and Mike Myers to Staff

Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director, Donald M. Fehr, today announced that former Major League pitchers Rick Helling and Mike Myers are joining the Association's staff. Helling and Myers join former Major Leaguers Bobby Bonilla, Phil Bradley, Stan Javier and Steve Rogers as special assistants to the Executive Director. "Mike Myers and Rick Helling had long and successful Major League careers, during which they served on the Association's Executive Board and represented the players as members of the negotiating committee in bargaining for our Basic Agreement and Pension agreements," said Fehr. "They are very familiar with the interests and needs of the players, and understand intimately the job that the MLBPA does for its members." During his 13-year Major League career, Helling served as a member of the Executive Board from 1999-2007, and was the American League Representative in 2000 and Alternate Association Representative in...