Rick Helling

Rick Helling grew up in North Dakota but played college baseball for Stanford. He was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the first round of the 1992 MLB Draft. Helling made his his Major League début in April 1994 with the Rangers, and played for 13 years in the bigs. He bounced around a bit, playing with Texas from 1994-96, and then successively with the Florida Marlins (1996-97), Texas Rangers (1997–2001), Arizona Diamondbacks (2002), Baltimore Orioles (2003), Florida Marlins (2003), before ending his career with two years with the Milwaukee Brewers (2005–2006). In 2003 he helped the Marlins win the World Series. Helling finished his major league career with a record of 93 wins and 91 losses, and a career ERA of 4.68. He also had 1,058 strikeouts.

Helling was one of the earliest critics of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in MLB, warning the Players Union in 1998 about their frequent use. He was a Players Union Executive Board Member from 1999-2007. In 2009 Helling became a special assistant to the head of the MLB Players Association, Donald Fehr.