MLBPA Player Board appoints Bruce Meyer as Interim Executive Director, Matt Nussbaum as Interim Deputy Executive Director

SCOTTSDALE, Feb. 18 – The Executive Board of the Major League Baseball Players Association today voted unanimously to appoint Bruce Meyer as Interim Executive Director and Matt Nussbaum as Interim Deputy Executive Director. The board is made up of 72 Major and Minor League Players elected by their teammates to two-year terms of service.  

Previously the Deputy Executive Director of the MLBPA, Bruce Meyer joined the union’s staff in 2018 as Senior Director, Collective Bargaining & Legal. On behalf of the union, he led negotiations on the 2022 Major League Basic Agreement, the 2020 Basic Agreement, and the 2023 Basic Agreement for Minor League Players. Before joining the MLBPA, Meyer was a senior advisor at the NHLPA and a partner at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where for decades he represented the Players associations in each of the major North American professional sports. Meyer will continue to act as the MLBPA’s chief negotiator for the union’s next Basic Agreement, which expires in December of this year.  

An integral part of baseball’s last three collective bargaining negotiations, Matt Nussbaum first joined the MLBPA in 2011 after three years as an attorney for the NHLPA. Serving as the MLBPA’s Deputy General Counsel since 2017, he was promoted to General Counsel in 2022 and has since been responsible for managing the MLBPA’s legal department, while taking an active role in bargaining.