In an unprecedented decision in the legalized sports gambling era, a San Diego Padres player was declared permanently ineligible by MLB for betting on baseball.
Major League Baseball declared San Diego Padres utility player Tucupita Marcano permanently ineligible on Monday, and disciplined four other minor league players, for gambling on baseball.Marcano received the heaviest penalty permissible by MLB for violating Rule 21, which prohibits gambling on baseball.
Marcano did not appear in any of the games on which he placed bets, however, because all of Marcano's Pirates-related bets, and the vast majority of his bets overall, occurred during the period after he suffered a season-ending knee injury on July 24, 2023. Consistent with Marcano's overall baseball betting activity, almost all of Marcano's Pirates bets were on which Club would win the game or whether there would be more or less than a certain number of runs scored in the game.
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