New York (AP) – Large Pat Hoberg was fired on Monday by major League Baseball to share their legal sports game accounts with a friend who opted for baseball parties and intentionally deleting the relevant electronic messages to The League’s research.
MLB opened the investigation last February when he was reported by the sports book and Hoberg did not manifest last season. Although the MLB said that the investigation did not discover evidence that Hoberg personally opted for baseball or manipulating games, the Senior Vice President of Field Operations, Michael Hill, recommended on May 24 that Hoberg was fired.
Commissioner Rob Manfred said on Monday he confirmed Hill’s decision. Among the most valued areas when judging the strike area, Hoberg can request reinstatement not before 2026.
MLB said the friend made 141 basketball bets between April 2, 2021 and November 1, 2023, for a total of almost $ 214,000 with a global victory of almost $ 35,000.
“The strict application of the rules of the major basball that regulates sports behavior is a critical component to defend our most important priority: to protect the integrity of our games for fans,” Manfred said in a statement. An extensive investigation did not reveal any proof that Mr. Hoberg put themselves directly on basketball or that he or anyone else manipulated in any way.
“However, his extremely poor judgment when sharing betting accounts with a professional poker player had reasons to believe in betting on basketball and that, in fact, the appearance of improper that guarantees imposing the most severe discipline. Therefore, only only There are reasons to defend Mr. Hoberg’s termination for not shaping the high standards of personal behavior and maintaining the integrity of the baseball game. “
Now, 38, Hoberg debuted in the Large League in 2014. During match 2 of the World Series of 2022, he had an “perfect game of the wide” unprecedented shouting with precision balls and strikes at 129 releases taken, according to Tracking computers.
“I take responsibility for the judgment errors stated in today’s statement,” Hoberg said in a statement. “These mistakes will always be a source of shame and shame. The main areas of baseball in the league are maintained with a high level of personal behavior and my own behavior was about this standard.
“Said, to be clear, I have never opted and never bet on baseball in any way, form or form. I have never provided and never provide information to anyone with the purpose of betting on baseball. Trust the integrity of the game It has always been of the utmost importance to me.
Hoberg was notified of his termination on May 31. According to the collective bargaining agreement of the Umpires, Hoberg had the right to resort to Hill’s decision, causing the MLB’s hiring of a neutral facts search engine that made a report to Manfred.
MLB said the sports book notified him that Hoberg opened an account on his name on January 30 last year and an electronic device associated with the account had accessed an account on behalf of another person, which had bet on baseball.
Hoberg’s devices placed 417 direct bets with the sports book between December 30, 2020 and January 15, 2024, in the friend accounts for a total amount of $ 487,475.83, which lost 53,189, $ 65 as a whole. The devices placed at least 112 bets with Sportsbook B for $ 222,130, which resulted in a loss of $ 21,686.96 on the whole. Most direct bets were football, basketball, hockey and golf.
Nineteen of the 141 baseball bets from the friend were made from Hoberg’s house and eight involved five games that Hoberg occupied or was a reproduction arbitrator. MLB Dated these games:
—L April 13, 2021, Hoberg had three calls close to the third base MLB said he ruled properly. There were $ 2,000 and 1,000 money line in Cincinnati, who lost to San Francisco 7-6.
-On June 15, 2021, Hoberg was the field of main reproduction and there were no reproduction reviews in the 3-2 loss of Chicago Cubs in the New York Mets. There was a $ 1,050 bet in a live line, a baseball equivalent of a point distribution, and the bet won and paid $ 1,550.
—L August 15, 2021, Hoberg was the referee of the Los Angeles Dodgers Victory Plate 14-4 on the Mets and had a 98.89% precision, two launches launched that MLB said it was They found in situations of low leverage and benefited from Los Angeles. Six calls were in a “buffer area” and four went against the Dodgers and two against the Mets. A bet of $ 3,200 for Dodgers paid $ 5,200.
-L October 8, 2021, Hoberg was the third base arbitrator for the loss of 4-0 Dodgers in San Francisco in a opener of the NL division series and had no nearby calls. A $ 2,000 monetary line bet and a $ 3,000 career line giants won and paid $ 9,300 combined.
– On October 30, 2021, Hoberg was the main officer of the World Series 4 game. 2 of the Braves and Hoberg confirmed the call for the call Alfonso Márquez, a decision that the MLB said was supported by its staff at the Play Operations Center. Money Line is committed to Houston $ 3,000 and $ 1,050 to Astros lost.
“Although baseball bets were profitable, the data did not support the finding that the baseball bets of individual accounts A were connected to the setting of games or to other efforts to manipulate any part of any game or event of Baseball, “said MLB in his results. “Baseball betting activity did not focus on any particular club, pitcher or referee, and there was no apparent correlation between the success of the bets and the size of the bets. The eight hoberg games worked similarly did not reveal any obvious pattern. “”
After being contacted by MLB researchers, the friend deleted the telegram threads that communicated the bets and monitoring the quantities due, and after a telephone conversation between Hoberg and the friend, the referee deleted the Your telegram account, according to MLB. MLB said that Hoberg said during the investigation and appealed that he had not been aware of his friend’s baseball bets.
“If our union believed that a commitment to a baseball rhythm, we would never defend it,” said Major League Umpires Association in a statement. “But as the statement of the league today makes it clear, the neutral facts search engine did not find that Pat made betting on basketball. However, we respect the unequivocal acceptance of the liability of the errors that led to its completion “.