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This is a list not of the 50 best players in MLB — Rob Manfred is not a better baseball player than José Ramirez — but, rather, of the top 50 people set to influence the 2024 MLB season. At least for this exercise, think of these folks as the characters in your favorite TV show, not numbers on a box score.

Flaherty, a member of the MLBPA's executive subcommittee, feels like he put executive director Tony Clark in a difficult position.

MLB's biggest star, Shohei Ohtani is embroiled in investigations over his interpreter's gambling debts, overshadowing the week before Opening Day.

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players’ union head Tony Clark made his first public response to an effort aimed at ousting his chief negotiator, calling it a secret campaign with an outside agenda. Clark issued a statement Sunday in response to a statement by Harry Marino, a former union official who hopes players will remove […]

Some of Ohtani’s former teammates say privately he showed no interest in other sports after he and Ippei Mizuhara have been embroiled in a gambling investigation.

MLB players are divided into factions over their leadership. These are natural growing pains after 5,000 minor leaguers joined the union.

Major League Baseball's average salary rose 7.1% last year to a record $4,525,719, according to the annual report the players' association issued Thursday, but several teams appear to be cutting payroll for 2024. Union figures are based on the 2023 salaries, earned bonuses and prorated shares of signing bonuses for 1,038 players on Aug. 31 active rosters and injured lists, before active rosters expanded for the remainder of the season. Luxury tax payrolls, based on 40-man rosters and...

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — MLB's new uniform reveal hasn't gone very well. Now some of the rampant criticism has moved below the belt.Major League

"I know everyone hates them," was one comment from an MLB player talking about the new uniforms, designed by Nike and manufactured by Fanatics.

A watch that melted during the atomic blast over Hiroshima, Japan, sells for more than $31,000