Jimmy Cordero, a reduction pitcher for the Yankees, has been suspended for the remainder of the season for violating Main League Baseball’s home violence coverage, the league and the workforce introduced on Wednesday.
Rob Manfred, the M.L.B. commissioner, mentioned on Wednesday that after an investigation, Cordero had accepted a suspension for the remainder of the 2023 common season and the playoffs. Manfred mentioned that Cordero had violated the league’s joint home violence, sexual assault and baby abuse coverage, with out offering particulars about what prompted the investigation and what a part of the coverage Cordero had violated.
Cordero, a 31-year-old journeyman right-hander who’s incomes a league minimal wage, was positioned on the restricted listing on Wednesday.
The Yankees mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday that the workforce was “totally supportive of Main League Baseball’s investigative course of and the disciplinary motion utilized to Jimmy Cordero.”
“There isn’t a justification for home violence,” the Yankees mentioned.
Cordero couldn’t be reached for remark Wednesday night time. His Instagram web page seemed to be inactive on Wednesday.
As a part of the league’s home violence coverage, Cordero will endure a “confidential and complete analysis” and take part in a therapy program, the league mentioned.
Earlier than Wednesday night time’s sport between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles in New York, Supervisor Aaron Boone addressed Cordero’s suspension with reporters.
“It’s unhappy. Your coronary heart goes out to everybody concerned,” Boone mentioned, including that he didn’t have particulars in regards to the investigation. “I don’t know what went down.”
Boone mentioned the workforce had been just lately knowledgeable that M.L.B. was investigating Cordero, however that the Yankees weren’t offered any further particulars. Boone famous that the coverage is designed to maintain particular particulars of an investigation out of the general public eye.
Cordero had not pitched for the Yankees since Sunday towards the St. Louis Cardinals. Boone mentioned the investigation had not performed a task in Cordero’s taking part in time.
Cordero made his main league debut in August 2018 with the Washington Nationals after a number of years within the minor leagues. Since then, he has bounced across the league and the minors, pitching for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Chicago White Sox.
The Yankees signed Cordero to a minor league contract in March 2022 and invited him to spring coaching. Cordero spent 2022 pitching for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Yankees’ high minor league affiliate.
Cordero started pitching for the Yankees this 12 months after the workforce picked up his contract from the RailRiders, and he had been a dependable presence within the Yankees bullpen this season, with an E.R.A. of three.86 and 34 strikeouts in fewer than 32 ⅔ innings pitched.
With Cordero suspended for the remainder of the 12 months, the Yankees known as up the right-handed pitcher Randy Vásquez from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán, who threw an ideal sport final week, was suspended for 81 video games in 2020 following a home abuse investigation.