{"id":19716,"date":"2012-02-24T19:13:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=19716"},"modified":"2012-02-24T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T03:13:01","slug":"statement-of-mlbpa-executive-director-michael-weiner-regarding-ryan-brauns-grievance-and-the-joint-drug-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/statement-of-mlbpa-executive-director-michael-weiner-regarding-ryan-brauns-grievance-and-the-joint-drug-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner Regarding Ryan Braun&#8217;s Grievance and the Joint Drug Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY, Friday, February 24, 2012<\/strong> &#8230; Michael Weiner, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, today issued the following statement regarding Ryan Braun&#8217;s grievance and baseball&#8217;s Joint Drug Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Joint Drug Program stands as strong, as accurate and as reliable as any in sport, both before and after the Braun decision. &#160;The breach of confidentiality associated with this matter is unfortunate but, after investigation, we are confident that it was not caused by the Commissioner&#8217;s Office, the MLBPA or anyone associated in any way with the Program. &#160;In all other respects, the appeals process worked as designed; the matter was vigorously contested and the independent and neutral arbitrator issued a decision deserving of respect by both bargaining parties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As has happened several times before with other matters, this case has focused the parties&#8217; attention on an aspect of our Program that can be improved. &#160; After discussions with the Commissioner&#8217;s Office, we are confident that all collections going forward will follow the parties&#8217; agreed-upon rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Greg Bouris, 212\/826-0808<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY, Friday, February 24, 2012 &#8230; Michael Weiner, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, today issued the following statement regarding Ryan Braun&#8217;s grievance and baseball&#8217;s Joint Drug Agreement. &#8220;Our Joint Drug Program stands as strong, as accurate and as reliable as any in sport, both before and after the Braun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}