CLEARWATER, Fla. — Can Major League Baseball and its players union work together to quell the torrent of player complaints this spring about the new uniforms? MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark told The Athletic on Wednesday that “work is being done to mitigate” the players’ concerns. But Clark stopped short of specifying what sort of work that was or what adjustments might result from it.
So it appears that Uniform Gate won’t be subsiding any time soon. On Wednesday, Clark addressed other topics in his conversation with The Athletic : THE STATE OF THE FREE AGENT MARKET — Clark described this still-sluggish free-agent winter as “interesting” because it was so different from the aggressive pursuit of free agents in the previous two offseasons. As of Wednesday, listed more than 70 unsigned free agents, including stars such as Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery, J.D.