Maybe the MLBPA will get someone in there who isn’t as hard-line as Fehr, who will actually follow the players’ lead rather than dictate terms to them.

The union’s task – and my job – is to represent the players, all of the players…We represent players who want their medical records to remain confidential and private…We represent players who believe that no one should have their reputations forever tarnished without the opportunity first to confront their accuser and have a neutral weigh the evidence.

Good job, Don.

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He wasn’t the most media savvy of union leaders, but I thought he did an adequate job of using every bargaining chip he had to fight for for rights of the players. Yes, critics will state that he took an absurd stance against steroid use, but his job wasn’t to make us as fans happy, but to fight tooth and nail for his union members no matter how unpopular the stance may have been. When he started his job, the MLBPA was the most powerful sports union around (maybe the most powerful union period), and he left it that way.

Of course, his downfall was not destroying those steroid test records immediately and allowing the G to get their hands on it week later.