Sports Timothy Rapp @@TRappaRT Featured Columnist IV June 3, 2024
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San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano is reportedly coping with a lifetime ban from baseball for violating MLB’s playing policy, in response to ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jared Diamond and Lindsey Adler of the Wall Avenue Journal.
Jeff Passan @JeffPassan San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano is coping with a possible lifetime ban for making a wager on baseball, sources utter ESPN.
While Foremost League Baseball’s investigation into Marcano is no longer total, a penalty, as @lindseyadler and @jareddiamond reported, can also very effectively be drawing near near.
Per the WSJ’s file, “Marcano, 24 years ancient, has been accused of making a wager on games consuming the Pittsburgh Pirates closing season while he modified into once on the injured checklist for that group.”
Four totally different players are also reportedly coping with punishments for making a wager on games at the minor league level, in response to Diamond and Adler.
The WSJ file added that Marcano’s “remaining punishment hasn’t been finalized, pending ongoing negotiations between MLB and the MLB Players Association.”
The Padres launched the following statement: “We are aware of an brisk investigation by Foremost League Baseball relating to a matter that took place when the player in quiz modified into once a member of but another group and never affiliated with the Padres. We won’t accept as true with any extra commentary till the investigative process has been performed.”
The 24-year-ancient closing played an MLB sport in the 2023 season with the Pirates. For his profession, he’s hit .217 with 5 homers and 34 RBI in 149 games.
Baseball has been immersed in playing scandals this year, most notably the one consuming Shohei Ohtani’s damaged-down translator, Ippei Mizuhara, who pleaded responsible to stealing over $16 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers celeb to repay money owed to an unlawful bookmaker. Ohtani modified into once no longer interested by the scandal and has been cleared of any possible wrongdoing.
Ohtani’s damaged-down teammate on the Los Angeles Angels, David Fletcher, is being investigated for allegedly twiddling with Matthew Bowyer, the linked unlawful bookie that Mizuhara former, in response to ESPN’s T.J. Quinn. Nonetheless, Fletcher is no longer being accused of making a wager on baseball.
Aged minor leaguer and Fletcher’s buddy, Colby Schultz, is being accused of making a wager on baseball—alongside side Angels games consuming Schultz—while utilizing Bowyer as his bookie, per Quinn.
“Executive cooperation can be vital in a case admire this the do we have not got evidence,” an MLB provide told Quinn.