MLB player faces lifetime ban; four others also under investigation | SportsTalk 790

Major League Baseball has reportedly received information that Marcano bet on games involving the Pittsburgh Pirates last season when he was still with the team but on the injured list due to a torn ACL. MLB Rule 21 states that “any player or person affiliated with a club” who bets on games involving their own team is subject to a lifetime ban, as was the case with MLB’s hit king. Peter Rosewho remains ineligible for playing and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame due to gambling during his tenure as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

Four minor league players reportedly face possible disciplinary action for gambling pending the outcome of the investigation, sources confirmed to ESPNPlayers face a one-year suspension for betting on Major League games if they began the year on an MLB team’s 40-man roster.

At the beginning of the year, the star of the Los Angeles Dodgers Shohei Ohtani‘s long-time interpreter, Ippei Mizuharawas fired from the team and later pleaded guilty in connection with a gambling scandal in which he allegedly stole $16 million from the baseball star. Sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed to TMZ Sports that Major League Baseball was reportedly investigating Ohtani’s involvement in the gambling scandal at the time of his refusal.

Representatives of 29-year-old Ohtani are said to have contacted law enforcement and asked them to investigate a “massive theft” of money from the two-way baseball player, a source with direct knowledge of the situation said ESPN on March 21st.

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