Major League Baseball announced Friday a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association regarding a new policy for domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.
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MLB and the MLBPA have announced an agreement on a Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. pic.twitter.com/C1eTGljC6r
— MLB Communications (@MLB_PR) August 21, 2015
In July 2014, SB Nation's Mike Bates wrote that the league needed to do something more to punish those who were alleged to have committed domestic abuse. Bates highlighted numerous instances in which players were arrested for domestic violence but received little to no reprimand from the MLB.