Main League Baseball has suspended former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías by way of the 2025 All-Star break below the Joint Home Violence, Sexual Assault and Little one Abuse Coverage, the league introduced Friday. Urías has agreed to undergo an analysis by the Joint Coverage Board and to adjust to any of the board’s suggestions. Urías is presently a free agent and has not pitched in MLB since 2023.
“The Workplace of the Commissioner of Baseball has accomplished its investigation into allegations that free agent pitcher Julio Urías violated Main League Baseball’s Joint Home Violence, Sexual Assault and Little one Abuse Coverage,” commissioner Rob Manfred stated in a press release. “Having reviewed all the out there proof, I’ve concluded that Mr. Urías violated our Coverage and that self-discipline is suitable.”
The 2025 All-Star break runs from July 14-17. Urías can be reinstated from the restricted listing on July 17. The suspension doesn’t cowl a particular variety of video games as a result of groups don’t at all times play an equal variety of video games earlier than the All-Star break.
Urías was place on administrative in Sept. 2023. His contract with the Dodgers expired after that season and he has not signed with a crew since. He was arrested following an alleged bodily altercation with a lady exterior BMO Stadium in Los Angeles on Sept. 3, 2023. Regulation enforcement obtained a cellular phone video of the alleged altercation.
Final April, Urías pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor home battery cost, and was sentenced to 36 months probation. He additionally needed to carry out 30 days of group service and full a 52-week counseling course. A second rely of home battery, considered one of spousal battery, considered one of false imprisonment, and considered one of assault had been dropped as a part of the plea settlement.
Urías is the primary participant suspended a number of instances below the home violence coverage. He served a 20-game suspension in 2019 after he was accused of shoving his girlfriend to the bottom in a car parking zone in Los Angeles.
MLB retains the fitting to self-discipline any participant it finds to have violated the league’s home violence coverage, even when that participant has not been arrested, charged with against the law, or discovered to be responsible in a court docket of regulation.
In elements of eight big-league seasons Urías, 28, completed top-10 in Cy Younger Award voting twice. That features in 2022, after he led the league in earned run common.
