Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero is suspended for the remainder of the season underneath MLB’s home violence coverage

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New York Yankees’ Jimmy Cordero pitches throughout the sixth inning within the first baseball recreation of a doubleheader towards the Chicago White Sox, Thursday, June 8, 2023, in New York. (AP Picture/Frank Franklin II) AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero was suspended for the remainder of the season by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday for violating the game’s home violence coverage.

MLB mentioned the 31-year-old right-hander accepted the suspension and can miss the season’s closing 76 video games and the postseason.

Cordero was 3-2 with a 3.86 ERA in a single begin and 30 aid appearances and has a $720,000 wage, the key league minimal. He missed the 2021 season after Tommy John surgical procedure whereas with the Chicago White Sox group and spent 2022 with the Yankees’ Triple-A workforce at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

The Yankees mentioned in an announcement they supported MLB’s self-discipline and “there isn’t a justification for home violence.”

New York pitcher Domingo Germán was given an 81-game suspension underneath the home violence coverage that he served in 2019 and 2020. Germán final week pitched MLB’s twenty fourth good recreation.

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