Yankees Pitcher Suspended for Violating Domestic Violence Policy

Jimmy Cordero, a aid pitcher for the Yankees, has been suspended for the remainder of the season for violating Major League Baseball’s home violence coverage, the league and the crew introduced on Wednesday.

Rob Manfred, the M.L.B. commissioner, stated on Wednesday that after an investigation, Cordero had accepted a suspension for the remainder of the 2023 common season and the playoffs. Manfred stated that Cordero had violated the league’s joint home violence, sexual assault and little one abuse coverage, with out offering particulars about what prompted the investigation and what a part of the coverage Cordero had violated.

Cordero, a 31-year-old journeyman right-hander who’s incomes a league minimal wage, was positioned on the restricted record on Wednesday.

The Yankees stated in a assertion on Wednesday that the crew was “fully supportive of Major League Baseball’s investigative process and the disciplinary action applied to Jimmy Cordero.”

“There is no justification for domestic violence,” the Yankees stated.

Cordero couldn’t be reached for remark Wednesday evening. His Instagram web page gave the impression to be inactive on Wednesday.

As a part of the league’s home violence coverage, Cordero will bear a “confidential and comprehensive evaluation” and take part in a therapy program, the league stated.

Before Wednesday evening’s sport between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles in New York, Manager Aaron Boone addressed Cordero’s suspension with reporters.

“It’s sad. Your heart goes out to everyone involved,” Boone stated, including that he didn’t have particulars in regards to the investigation. “I don’t know what went down.”

Boone stated the crew had been not too long ago knowledgeable that M.L.B. was investigating Cordero, however that the Yankees weren’t supplied any further particulars. Boone famous that the coverage is designed to maintain particular particulars of an investigation out of the general public eye.

Cordero had not pitched for the Yankees since Sunday in opposition to the St. Louis Cardinals. Boone stated the investigation had not performed a task in Cordero’s enjoying time.

Cordero made his main league debut in August 2018 with the Washington Nationals after a number of years within the minor leagues. Since then, he has bounced across the league and the minors, pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Chicago White Sox.

The Yankees signed Cordero to a minor league contract in March 2022 and invited him to spring coaching. Cordero spent 2022 pitching for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Yankees’ prime minor league affiliate.

Cordero started pitching for the Yankees this yr after the crew picked up his contract from the RailRiders, and he had been a dependable presence within the Yankees bullpen this season, with an E.R.A. of three.86 and 34 strikeouts in fewer than 32 ⅔ innings pitched.

With Cordero suspended for the remainder of the yr, the Yankees known as up the right-handed pitcher Randy Vásquez from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán, who threw a good sport final week, was suspended for 81 video games in 2020 following a home abuse investigation.