Tag: gambling

MLB Fires Pat Hoberg for Sharing Betting Accounts

MLB has fired umpire Pat Hoberg for sharing sports betting accounts with a professional poker player who bet on baseball, The Athletic reported on Monday. The league did not find that he bet on baseball or affected games with his umpiring, but he deleted messages that were pertinent to the investigation. Hoberg was fired last May 31 but appealed the decision, and a neutral party was brought in....

Morning Briefing: MLB Investigating Ohtani Amid Gambling Scandal

Good morning, Mets fans! On Friday, Major League Baseball announced that they would be investigating the allegations surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his recently fired interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. Mizuhara was alleged to have defrauded Ohtani out of millions of dollars to cover illegal gambling debts, though stories released to the public didn’t seem to add up. Mizuhara was fired by the...