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Gene Orza, MLB Players Union Executive, to Retire Next Spring

Longtime MLB Players Association official Gene Orza announced Tuesday his plans to retire as of March 31, 2011. Orza, currently the union's chief operating officer, served as longtime MLBPA chief Donald Fehr's right-hand man. Michael Weiner replaced Fehr as executive director last year, and Orza said it's time to continue...

MLBPA Accepts No Blame in A-Rod Flap

If casual fans can get over their anger that Alex Rodriguez somehow violated the sanctity of America's Pastime, they'll realize just how absurd it is that the Major League Baseball Players Association is not under more fire for having these 2003 test results released in the first place. Or, check that. "These" was a bad...

Daily Jolt: Gene Orza Biggest Villain of All

The Daily Jolt is a dose of baseball reality every weekday morning.Baseball will carry on. It always does. If it can survive the fixing of the World Series, it can certainly survive the "revelation" that the once and future home run king juiced. That may not be what people want to hear as they huff and puff and blow...

11 Free Agents Investigated, Not Necessarily on Mitchell List

Yesterday we passed along the news that 11 current free agents were going to appear in the Mitchell Report. Naturally we cautioned GMs to be on the lookout so they didn't make the same type of commitment the Angels made to Gary Matthews Jr., who only months later was fingered in an HGH report. Well, only a day later, the...