"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Major League Baseball knew they were playing with fire when they jumped into bed with gamblers. Now it has come back to bite them in the ass. Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz will be banned for life and will probably serve jail sentences because they rigged prop bets in games. The payoffs were chump change for a guy making millions (Clase signed a 4-yr, $20M deal in 2022). In Ortiz' case, he would be arb-eligible next year and was making $782K this year and was looking at potential millions down the road.