May 1, 2014

Cleaning House

Major League Baseball restructured their investigative unit:

The league and its commissioner, Bud Selig, faced claims from Rodriguez’s lawyers that its investigators had acted inappropriately during the investigation. Among the accusations were that baseball’s agents had paid people thousands of dollars for information and that in one case became intimate with a witness.

But at the conclusion of the dispute, M.L.B.’s chief arbitrator upheld most of Rodriguez’s record suspension, barring him for the 2014 season and postseason. The arbitrator, Fredric Horowitz, wrote in his decision that the “charges of improper conduct” by investigators were “unfounded.”

Still, M.L.B. proceeded to examine how its representatives handled the case and decided it should make changes, baseball officials said. That led to eliminating the jobs of Daniel T. Mullin, the investigative unit chief; his top deputy, George Hanna; and Ed Dominguez, a top agent.

Reading between the lines, MLB decided they were better off without these people than with them.

4 thoughts on “Cleaning House

  1. M. Scott Eiland

    “We deny all wrongdoing in this matter, and promise never to do it again.”

    If this had involved someone who *wasn’t* despised by almost literally everyone, they’d be getting crucified for how they handled this. It’s definitely a good time for a pit under the yellow to leave a less explosive environment for Bud the Spud’s replacement.

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  2. WeWanttheFunk

    “MLB decided they were better off without these people than with them…” now that the dirty work is over with.

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  3. pft

    I suspect MLB cut a deal to prevent criminal charges against them and some of their employees.
    They pretty much own Florida due to ST and a couple of teams and nobody with the Feds wants to mess with MLB, so a deal where they fire a few of the employees who skirted the law in return for getting off and no publicity is probably not hard

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