Major League Baseball announced Wednesday it has placed Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias on administrative leave Wednesday, three days after police arrested the left-hander on suspicion of felony domestic violence.
Urías, 27, did not travel with the Dodgers after his late-Sunday arrest outside BMO Stadium, where he had watched the Inter Miami-LAFC soccer game. He was taken into custody on charges of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, which can be filed as a felony or misdemeanor.
MLB can unilaterally place a player on administrative leave -- during which he is paid but removed from a team's roster -- for seven days under the joint domestic-violence policy.