Major League Baseball suspended newly-acquired New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman 30 games under its new domestic-violence disciplinary process.
The hard-throwing reliever begins serving the suspension following spring training. His eligibility to first pitch in pinstripes comes on May 9. He loses $1.7 million in salary as a result of the ban.
“I asked my staff to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the incident involving Aroldis Chapman,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred explained. “Much of the information regarding the incident has been made public through documents released by law enforcement. Mr. Chapman submitted to an in-person interview with counsel present. After reviewing the staff report, I found Mr. Chapman’s acknowledged conduct to be inappropriate under the negotiated policy, particularly his use of a firearm and the impact of that behavior on his partner.”
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6 comments:
Nice job MLB, now if others sports would just follow that example.
Damn Yankees
With or without pay?
BIG difference.
7:43pm
He loses $1.7 million in salary as a result of the ban.
He is held to a higher standard I take it losing alot of money and being held to a conviction not only from the courts but his employer. This is crap. The courts should be the only ones convicting a person. Makes no sense. Yet a cop gets a slap on the wrist and paid vacations. When cops are the ones who should be held to the highest standards being they know all law and are the enforcers of them.
As a society we are truly a sad bunch of hacks as a whole. Who gives a damn about Aronis Chapman and the whole sports agenda. We look at them as "great" or doing something "historical " and pay all the ridiculous amount of money to go to sporting events a memoribiali but we won't spend the money to educate our children. We let their minds be formed by the internet
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