Last week, MLB union chief Tony Clark again expressed frustration with how last winter’s market played out, with the sluggish business for veteran free agents.
“What we experienced last offseason was a direct attack on free agency, which has been a bedrock of our economic system,” he said. “If that's going to continue, then we have some very difficult decisions to make moving forward.”
As the union begins to formulate a badly needed strategy for the months and years ahead, sources continue to say that Clark and the union leadership have been engaged in substantive conversations with agents, a marked change from how business was conducted leading up to the last Collective Bargaining Agreement.