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MLB (Manfred) Does The Absolute Bare Minimum Re Callaway Harassment Investigation

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred this week announced, after an investigation that was announced more than three months ago (it may or may not have been a three-month investigation), that Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway was placed on the Ineligible List until at least the end of the 2022 season. Shortly thereafter, the Angels fired Callaway.

News of Callaway's rampant and aggressive sexual harassment of numerous women (both journalists and team employees) was first reported by Katie Strang and Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic on February 1, 2021.

Callaway's behaviour, which included badgering various women to spend time with him, sending them numerous shirtless and nude photographs of himself, repeatedly texting and requesting nude pictures in return, thrusting his crotch in one reporter's face during an interview, and telling a female reporter that if she got drunk with him, he'd give her inside information on his team, was described by more than one person as "the worst-kept secret in sports".