Top negotiator Rick Shapiro leaves baseball players’ union

NEW YORK (AP) — Rick Shapiro left his job as a top negotiator for the Major League Baseball Players Association on Friday after 9½ years.
He worked as a consultant on salary arbitration starting in the 1980s and joined the staff full time in 2010, a month after Michael Weiner succeeded Donald Fehr as union head.
Shapiro’s title was senior adviser to the executive director and he was a primary figure in preparing salary arbitration cases. He was heavily involved in collective b