Big League Baseball has banned a participant for lifestyle and suspended 4 players for a calendar year for betting on baseball, the league announced Tuesday.
Tucupita Marcano, an infielder and outfielder for the San Diego Padres, was placed on baseball’s forever ineligible record after an investigation implicated him in building close to $150,000 well worth of wagers on baseball.
“The rigorous enforcement of Significant League Baseball’s regulations and procedures governing gambling conduct is a significant element of upholding our most essential precedence: guarding the integrity of our online games for the followers,” MLB commissioner Rob Manfred mentioned in a statement. “The longstanding prohibition in opposition to betting on Significant League Baseball game titles by individuals in the sport has been a bedrock basic principle for in excess of a century.
Marcano is the seventh individual and second lively participant banned during Manfred’s tenure, adhering to New York Mets pitcher Jenrry Mejía in 2016 for efficiency-improving drug violations (Mejía was later reinstated).
The other 4 players who obtained yearlong suspensions were Padres insignificant league pitcher Jay Groome, Oakland Athletics pitcher Michael Kelly, Philadelphia Phillies small league infielder José Rodríguez and Arizona Diamondbacks slight league pitcher Andrew Saalfrank.
