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It's time for the MLBPA to treat PED users with the same disdain they once reserved for replacement players, writes Buster Olney. It's on the players to weed out the cheaters.

Blog | Conversation | January 30, 2013

Buster Olney writes that the biggest losers when a player uses performance-enhancing drugs are the other players. If the union doesn't take a stronger stand, other players will continue to lose out.

Blog | Conversation | August 15, 2012

Major League Baseball and its union appear to be close to agreeing to a draft structure that will serve to restrain signing bonuses -- something commissioner Bud Selig has wanted -- and could eliminate first-round draft pick compensation, sources said.

A form of realignment has been raised in labor talks between MLB and the players' union, according to three sources: Two leagues of 15 teams, rather than the current structure of 16 NL teams and 14 in the AL.

With evidence that science has finally found a way to test for HGH, it'll be interesting to see whether -- with recent history in mind -- the MLBPA is ready to take seriously another possible performance-enhancer, or whether it'll play ignorant once more.

Blog | Conversation | February 23, 2010

The details of Matt Holliday's contract with the St. Louis Cardinals have been finalized, and the present-day value has been assessed at $113,580,723 by the MLBPA.

Union head Don Fehr put out a statement Monday night explaining that the MLBPA had begun the process of destroying the results from the 2003 survey but stopped less than a week later upon learning that those same results were being viewed as possible...

Blog | Conversation | February 11, 2009

The MLB players' association has opened an investigation into the free-agent market.

If MLBPA leadership intends to use tougher steroid testing as a bargaining chip, then the time to act is now.