Another Major League Baseball player is caught up in a gambling scandal this season. Tucupita Marcano, an infielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates is one of multiple players under investigation for betting on baseball according to this report from Jared Diamond and Lindsey Adler from the Wall Street Journal. The investigation is still ongoing, but Marcano faces a potential lifetime ban for violating the league’s gambling policy.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Marcano, 24, debuted with the Padres in 2021 before getting traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates that July. Over 149 career games with the Padres and Pirates, he has a career .217/.269/.320 slash line with five home runs and -0.9 Wins Above Replacement. According to Diamond and Adler, Marcano was betting on games involving the Pirates while he was on the injured list with the Pirates in 2023. He suffered a torn ACL last July and has not played in a major league game since.
This is the second gambling scandal to hit MLB this season, with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter Ippei Mizuhara accused of stealing $16 million from Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-way star and using it to pay his gambling debts in a report from ESPN’s Tisha Thompson. Mizuhara was fired by the Dodgers when they played the San Diego Padres in Korea when his gambling addiction was reported.
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Michael McDermott covers the Arizona Diamondbacks and Arizona Cardinals for Burn City Sports. You can follow him on X via @MichaelMcDMLB
