Major League Baseball is terrible at handing out punishments and making smart decisions so this news shouldn’t surprise anyone – Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly has been suspended eight games for throwing at a few Astros players on Tuesday night and then brilliantly taunting them while walking off the mound.
I mean, come on MLB. Eight games for that!? As the great Ken Rosenthal points out, this 8-game suspension in a 60-game season is the equivalent of a 22-game suspension in a normal 162-game schedule. That’s also eight games more than any Astros players got for cheating.
Which is an absolute joke.
Also to be noted – Kelly, who doesn’t always have the best control, didn’t hit any of the Astros players that he threw at. So he’s basically getting suspended for throwing a ball near a batter, which is a pitcher’s job. Should he have avoided throwing the pitches behind the hitters? Yeah, probably. But still, nobody was hit by any pitch.
If anything, Rob Manfred should suspend himself for continuing to be so terrible at his job.
Manfred, of course, didn’t suspend any Astros players for their roles in the trash-can cheating scandal that helped them win the World Series over the Dodgers in 2017. Manfred, in defending his decision on that lack of punishment, even called the World Series trophy just a “piece of metal.”
By not punishing any of the players he left the Astros more vulnerable to situations like we saw Tuesday night. What did he think was going to happen when members of the Dodgers and other teams had to see that nobody was punished for that scandal? Were they just going to accept the fact that the league doesn’t care and move on with their peaceful lives? No, of course not.
I think we can all agree that Manfred is a bumbling fool who should have been out of a job a very long time ago. Punishing Kelly for such a long time in such a short season is more proof that Manfred and MLB are completely out of touch with reality.
Kelly is protesting his suspension and will be eligible to pitch tonight and if I’m the Dodgers I just let him go out there and pitch the first inning as a big middle finger to a league and a boss that are way over their collective skies.
The Link LonkJuly 30, 2020 at 04:37AM
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MLB suspending Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly for 8 games is an absolute joke - For The Win
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