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Cleveland Guardians pitcher placed on leave hours before his start as
MLB reportedly investigating gambling
By Kyle Feldscher, CNN
Updated:
1:57 PM EDT, Thu July 3, 2025
Source: CNN
placed Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz on indefinite leave on
Thursday, with multiple reports indicating he is facing a
gambling-related investigation.
MLB said in a statement that Ortiz was being put on “non-disciplinary
leave through the end of the All-Star break” for the investigation.
The announcement came just hours before Ortiz was supposed to take the
mound as the Guardians starting pitcher for their game against the
Chicago Cubs.
In a team statement, the Guardians said they had “been notified by
Major League Baseball that Luis Ortiz has been placed on leave per an
agreement with the Players Association due to an ongoing league
investigation. The Guardians are not permitted to comment further at
this time and will respect the league’s confidential investigative
process.”
Sources later told and that the probe is related to gambling. MLB
declined to comment on the reports. CNN has reached out to the
Guardians for comment.
MLB has had to navigate turbulent waters over gambling in recent years.
The sport was rocked by theinvolving megastar Shohei Ohtani and his
interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara. Mizuhara was sentenced to more than four
years in prison earlier this year following revelations at the
beginning of the from Ohtani to fuel a gambling addiction. Ohtani, the
Japanese two-way player who is breaking new ground in the league,
denied ever taking part in any gambling activities.
Later in the 2024 season, the league banned for life after MLB
determined he had been gambling on baseball. Marcano placed 387
baseball bets, including 231 MLB-related ones, over two periods in 2022
and 2023 while he was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates and while he
was on the injured list. He gambled more than $150,000 on baseball,
with $87,319 of that on MLB-related bets.
The MLB investigation found that 25 of those bets included Pirates
games while Marcano was assigned to the Major League club. The MLB
probe found that “almost all of Marcano’s Pirates bets were on
which club (the Pirates or their opponent) would win the game or
whether there would be more or less than a certain number of runs
scored in the game.”
Earlier this year, – one of the sport’s up-and-coming young umpires
– for sharing gambling accounts with a friend who had bet on
baseball. The league found no evidence that Hoberg himself had bet on
baseball, but the report stated that messages regarding the MLB’s
investigation had been deleted and that the league found dismissal to
be warranted.
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