MLBPA picks their new head after Tony Clark’s resignation

The Major League Baseball Players Association has moved quickly to name Tony Clark’s successor.

In a release on Wednesday, the MLBPA announced that they have unanimously elected Bruce Meyer as their new interim executive director. Matt Nussbaum has also been unanimously elected to serve as the MLBPA’s new interim deputy executive director.

The MLBPA noted that their voting board is made up of 72 Major and Minor League Players elected by their teammates to two-year terms of service. You can read their release in full here.

Clark, the previous executive director of the MLBPA, resigned abruptly from his position earlier this week. The 53-year-old former MLB All-Star first baseman had served as executive director of the MLBPA since Dec. 2013.

It was later revealed that Clark had reportedly engaged in an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law. Clark’s sister-in-law had been hired by the players union in 2023 (read the full details here).

As for Meyer, he had first joined the MLBPA in 2018 as Senior Director, Collective Bargaining & Legal before later working his way up to Deputy Executive Director. Meyer will be tasked as the MLBPA’s chief negotiator on a new collective bargaining agreement with Major League Baseball as the possibility of a lockout in 2027 looms.