00:00The business of Major League Baseball usually is a pitcher, a hitter, you know, hitting home runs, striking guys out, making a paycheck here, looking to get to your next paycheck.
00:09Most of the times we don't worry about these pitchers or hitters.
00:12Let's just say that we're going paycheck to paycheck because they need more money, trying to find other opportunities.
00:17Now, in other sports, we found certainly gambling scandals come through like guys that are on a contract making good money saying, hey, let me throw my boys a bone here.
00:25Hey, by the way, listen up, first quarter, I'm going to say my foot hurts, bet all my unders in the game.
00:30That's going to get flagged because when you're a benchwarmer or a player that has some odd circumstances around your betting patterns and around your games here,
00:38that's going to get flagged now by integrity groups that are monitoring here once we have legalized sports gambling over the past couple of years.
00:44Now we take a look at Major League Baseball.
00:45We had the big Otani scandal here, Joe Ranieri, but this one's certainly not as big, but we see players getting caught up in this all the time.
00:52And Jeff Passan tweeted out breaking news yesterday.
00:54The Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Classe has been placed on non-disciplinary paid leave as part of Major League Baseball's sports betting investigation.
01:02Sources tell ESPN Classe is the second Guardians pitcher on leave tied to the investigation, joining right-handed Luis Ortiz.
01:09So let me ask you this question, like basketball, football, a little bit easier to determine.
01:15But are we just looking at like, oh, Classe's a really good closer?
01:17What happened tonight when he couldn't get anybody out and were there betting irregularities based on the losing of the game or a total?
01:26Like, it's so much different for a pitcher than it is per se for a NBA guard that can say, I'm not hitting any threes and I'm just going to try to actually fake an injury and leave the game to catch all these unders, Joe.
01:37How do we find out what he's doing and what do you think he was doing?
01:40So I have the whole thing.
01:42I wish they would be a little bit more transparent, Major League Baseball, in what's going on, because this Ortiz thing is going on, what, two months now?
01:51Donnie, it feels like a month and a half.
01:53And the only thing that we know is that the irregularities had to do with, you know, micro betting.
02:00In other words, guys that are betting whether the next pitch is a strike or a ball.
02:04And exactly what is the limit on those kinds of bets, Donnie?
02:10Because, I mean, how can anything stand out if you can only bet $200 or $500?
02:15So I don't understand exactly unless this is, you know, somebody got busted and, you know, dropped a name here or there.
02:23But I don't know how you prove any of that or how any red flag comes about if the limit is $200, $300, $400, $500.
02:33Like, I just don't understand the what would have made the flagging for that to begin with.
