Yuli Gurriel will receive a five game suspension for his disparaging the race of Yu Darvish Friday night. The suspension, however, will be for the first five games of the 2018 season:
Manfred said Gurriel expressed remorse when the two met Friday night and again on Saturday. Gurriel will also meet with Darvish to apologize, Manfred said.
Manfred said he decided to have the suspension be served at the start of the 2018 regular season because it would be unfair to punish the other Astros players.
“We support Major League Baseball’s decision of a five-game suspension for the 2018 season,” Astros’ general manager Jeff Luhnow said in a statement.
Baloney. The penalty should inflict the most pain to discourage this type of behavior in the future. Five games next season costs Guriel about $333,000. Possibly costing your team a World Series victory would make it difficult for him to stay in the club house.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2xv57xC
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