...clinic helped lead him to seek stiffer penalties.He declined to give specifics, saying MLB Executive Vice President Rob Manfred and players' union head Michael Weiner will meet.MLB and the union started urine testing with an anonymous survey...

...We were able to get through this because I am innocent and the truth is on our side."MLB executive vice president Rob Manfred said management "vehemently disagrees" with Das' decision.Travis Tygart, chief executive officer of the U.S...

...suspension by the commissioner's office," a statement from the players' association said.MLB executive vice president Rob Manfred and union head Michael Weiner are part of the arbitration panel, and management and the union almost always split their...

...discussing upcoming collective bargaining Tuesday with major league general managers, MLB executive vice president Rob Manfred said adding wild-card teams for 2011 would be "a difficult trick to pull off" because it would have to be a modification...

...labor lawyer thinks there's a way to work out a new contract without another strike. Sounding unusually optimistic, Rob Manfred said after Thursday's five-hour bargaining session that the sides will meet again Friday and probably will have...

...contract Tuesday, approving a memorandum that outlines the agreement that avoided a strike. Union head Donald Fehr and Rob Manfred, the owners' top labor lawyer, signed the "memorandum of understanding" separately at their offices. Just before...

...out. "I'll make the deal with you today," Gene Orza, the union's No. 2 official, told management negotiator Rob Manfred during a panel discussion Thursday at the World Congress of Sports. "You'll never take that deal because the deal...

...survey will be conducted. "We'll have them in the next few days and they'll be announced shortly thereafter," Rob Manfred, major league baseball's executive vice president for labor relations, said at the general managers' meeting Monday...

...committee staff Monday, trying to narrow the scope of questioning. Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, and Rob Manfred, the executive vice president in charge of labor relations, were in Washington to meet with the committee staff...

...House Government Reform Committee along with players' association head Donald Fehr, baseball executive vice presidents Rob Manfred and Sandy Alderson and San Diego general manager Kevin Towers. Stanley Brand, a lawyer for the baseball commissioner's...