The Major League Baseball Players Association moved quickly to steady the ship on Wednesday, unanimously electing Bruce Meyer as interim executive director, the union announced.

Meyer, previously the union’s deputy executive director and its main representative at the bargaining table, assumes the role less than a year before the current labor agreement expires on Dec. 1, 2026, a deadline already highlighted by ownership’s discussions of a salary cap and the threat of another lockout.

The change at the top comes a day after Tony Clark resigned following an internal investigation that uncovered an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law, who was hired by the union in 2023, according to ESPN. In its statement announcing Clark’s departure, the union emphasized that “The strength of this union is — and will always be — the solidarity of our membership.”

Meyer was hired by the MLBPA in 2018 and has been at the center of the union’s most consequential negotiations in recent years, including the pandemic-era talks and the agreement that followed the 99-day lockout in 2022.

The union also named Matt Nussbaum as interim deputy executive director.

–Field Level Media