JUNE 24: The league has reduced Cabrera’s suspension to three games, Grant tweets. Cabrera will sit out the Rangers’ series against the Tigers from June 25-27.
JUNE 21: Major League Baseball has issued a four-game suspension to Rangers third baseman Asdrubal Cabrera, according to Jon Heyman of MLB Network. Cabrera will appeal the ban, TR Sullivan of MLB.com tweets.
Cabrera received the suspension for throwing equipment on the field at umpire Bill Miller on Thursday, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News reports. One piece of equipment “apparently” struck Miller in the ankle, per Grant. Cabrera’s outburst came amid an ejection for arguing balls and strikes.
The 33-year-old Cabrera’s in his first season with the Rangers, who signed him to a $3.5MM deal over the winter to succeed Adrian Beltre as their primary third baseman. The switch-hitting Cabrera has since batted an underwhelming .242/.322/.428 (92 wRC+) with 11 home runs in 267 plate appearances.
4 Games for that? I could only imagine what would’ve happened back in the day with Lou Piniella. At one point in his career throwing equipment onto the field with a daily occurrence
He got 4 games for being an Asdrubel
Classic!
yikes, chill dude
some umpires deserve to have things thrown at them for making bad calls throwing him out of the game was enough he does not service a fine or a suspension torre is an idiot
Must respect the blind men in blue!
You sound like you’d be a jock Dad who embarrasses his kid at little league by abusing the Umpire from the sideline.
Cmon a guy umpiring little league for a 2nd job and a professional MLB umpire whos paid 125,000=300,000 dollars a year to ump are completely different realms. MLB is a $10,000,000,000 (yes 10 Bill) revenue a year business. this isnt about feelings getting hurt these games make a real and huge difference financially for players and teams.
Sure its mainly competition, no i dont think pro sports should be worth this much, and yes umps provide a level of human error to the game, but over the past season and a half the umps are starting to get this little man syndrome where they cant take any criticism and have short fuses.
They need to work on the umpires union agreements so we can get more guys like Jim Joyce or Tim McClelland and let guys like Joe West, C.B. Bucknor and Angel Hernandez go.
My 2 choices who i believe are player favorites have had big time screw ups and the fact the players and fans like these umps show its not about them being perfect its about their character and their ability to call games consistently in the long run.
More “workplace violence” ha ha. Dude picked a bad time to throw an object after the umps union meltdown about Machado.
For once I agree with the decision to appeal and hope it gets cut substantially.
yeah can we talk about how we have video evidence of umpires saying crap like “I can do whatever i want”, the pitch by pitch data collection that shows guys like Angel Hernandez calling balls in the middle 9 section of the strike zone balls, umpires going ahead and making more bad pitch calls when someone comments on the zone and umpires running guys for any sort of response to poor calls.
Their on a power trip and its getting old.
Same penalty Brett Lawrie got for throwing a helmet that bounced and hit…Bill Miller. Considering the difference in potential injury caused by each piece of equipment, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this end up a 3 game suspension. Of course, no one should be throwing things at umpires, no matter how bad a call may be (although in this case it looked like the right call). Also, poor aim by Cabrera considering Doug Eddings is the one who ejected him.
Can Odor serve the suspension in his place?
Lol
Best post on this thread by a mile.
On a serious note, the Rangers are going to have to make a decision on Odor at some point. He’s been the worst every day player in the game two of the last three years while everyone around him — particularly the alternatives for his roster spot/playing time — has performed well. I know JD and Co. don’t want to cut bait on a guy they’ve got so much invested in, but he’s by far the weakest link on a team that’s fighting very hard to compete this year. It would send a very bad signal to pick him over the good of the whole.
I understand dealing with umpires can get frustrating but a player will win those arguments…..
Sorry! Will NOT win these arguments!
Struck in the ankle. Lol he threw his batting gloves from the dugout. I understand protecting umpires, but come on man…. It’s a sweaty glove, is “struck” the most appropriate word to use?
His gloves caressed his ankles
Much better
elbow pad was included, for distance
He threw his batting gloves…gimme a break.
How was this a 4 game when Manny Machado only got one for throwing his bat and helmet. Blatant favoritism by MLB for prima donna stars.
75% of these old, overweight, blowhards do not belong on the field in the first place. Joe Torre should retire and let someone with a pair address this never ending problem in the sport. Probably one of the biggest down sides of baseball in general. Joe West was celebrated for his 40th year on the field. Really? Should we be celebrating that for any umpire? Especially not for West, a perennial finisher in the top 5 of the worst of the worst.
Especially when Statcast heat maps have proven they get worse with age…..
Your numbers are way off. Joe west happens to be a top 5 umpire which is why hes still around. His grades outweigh your opinion.
Ok Joe. I’ll stick by my assessment as one of the Worst every year as voted by the players. Hernandez, Buckner, West, then all the other fat old men. I’m watching the Mets right now. Joe already blew a safe call in the first inning, an Obvious safe call. Then we had to watch him waddle back to first after being overruled.
#Embarrassing
If I was going to get a 4 game suspension anyway, i would have thrown something higher and heavier. Miller sucks.
Asdrubal has his temper. This is not the Venezuelan league where he can get away with whatever…
That’s not an underwhelming batting line.
It’s the worst OPS+ of his 13-year career
And he’s gone cold…..
3 word solution:
Automated Strike Zone
(…it will also speed the game up)
Agreed, and I was going to say the same thing.
MLB wants to speed up the game…this is the solution !!
One bad call at anytime during a game can change the outcome……..why would any owner accept this when it can be solved with technology!
Umpires this year are certainly making a strong case for roboump…….they are terrible !
Robo-rump?????????? Oh ya, I saw one of those in that weird store I New York……
Hey those batting gloves could have hurt someone!
And the umpire did make a bad call that day.
Don’t their bosses talk to them when they suck?
Why does Angel Hernandez STILL have a job?
I watched that game…..
Can’t wait for the Statcast umpire! This dung will be gone!
Will the Umpires Union tweet that a three game suspension is a slap in the face? This work place violence must end!
The whole situation is kind of funny. Looks like it was a strike to begin with and he correct call, but he threw a batting glove and a shin pad. He should get suspended for throwing anything, but even the reduced 3 games seems a little over the top. I think a lot of this stems from overall bad umpiring. Players don’t trust the calls being made cause the strike zone moves around a lot and there are some terrible calls made on a regular basis with no consequences to the umps making the bad calls.
roberto alomar would have just swallowed on that call
It’s pretty embarrassing that a grown man can’t control himself to the point where he needs to throw things at officials.