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Baseball players' union head Michael Weiner says toughening penalties for drug violations will have to wait until the 2014 season.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Add Michael Weiner, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, to the list of those who are skeptical of Hal Steinbrenner's edict to cut the Yankees' payroll to $189 million by 2014. "I'll believe it when I...

Baseball union head Michael Weiner said Monday there have been talks about increasing the penalties for violating baseball's drug testing program.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. FIRST PITCH: Let the games begin. The Mets play an intrasquad game at noon today at Tradition Field (admission: $6). Scheduled to pitch: Gonzalez Germen, LaTroy Hawkins, Scott Rice, Collin McHugh, Elvin Ramirez, Greg Burke,...

Baseball union head Michael Weiner says reporters should refrain from jumping to conclusions about media reports linking players to a Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Bobby Bonilla was at Mets camp on Thursday as part of a Players' Association contingent meeting with current players. As crazy as it sounds, Bonilla's $1.2 million annual payment from the Mets as part of his deferred compensat...

Baseball union head Michael Weiner said it would be unfair to make judgments about players and agents before evidence is sorted out in the sport's latest drug investigation.

The head of the baseball players' union says there have been talks with Major League Baseball about increasing the sport's drug testing program.

The odds are long for MLBPA executive director Michael Weiner. But baseball's "regular genius" will not give in to inoperable brain cancer.

The Major League Baseball Players Association holds regular meetings with its executive board, and when next they meet, there will be great news to discuss -- Michael Weiner, the respected and cherished head of the union, has responded strongly in hi...

Blog | November 08, 2012

Players and executives within baseball quietly suspect that PED use is again on the rise, and it might be up to the players to take a stronger stand.

Blog | Conversation | November 08, 2012

The baseball players' union concluded Melky Cabrera's agents didn't know about a scheme to create a phony website in a defense of his positive drug test but said they failed to properly manage the employees of the firm who tried to carry out the scheme.

Baseball players' union head Michael Weiner is undergoing treatment for a brain tumor.

Spending by teams in baseball's amateur draft dropped by 11 percent in the first year of restrictions imposed by the new labor contract.

After the NL All-Stars beat their AL counterparts Tuesday in Kansas City, Citi Field now officially is on the clock for the 2013 All-Star Game. The Mets reassemble to hold an afternoon workout Thursday in Atlanta. Today, Jason Bay (concussion) and...

Confirming previous reports, union chief Michael Weiner told reporters in Kansas City the Mets and Yankees and other interleague rivals will play three or four games beginning in 2013, not six. "It wasn't fair to have six games against an opponent...