The Indians announced today that right-handers Zach Plesac and Mike Clevinger have been placed on the restricted list. Both pitchers violated the league’s health and safety protocols over the weekend when they went out after Saturday night’s game. In a pair of corresponding moves, Cleveland reinstated outfielder Tyler Naquin from the injured list and recalled lefty Logan Allen from the team’s alternate training site.
Today’s move subtracts both Plesac and Clevinger from the active roster, though they’ll continue to receive both service time and salary while absent, Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweets. That differs from the restricted-list assignments that follow a PED suspension. In all likelihood, the decision was made in order to add a pair of fresh bodies to the roster while Plesac and Clevinger are tested daily for Covid-19 — rather than as a punitive measure. The organization can reinstate the pair whenever it sees fit, so long as both have tested negative at least twice (separated by a span of 24 hours).
It’s not yet clear to what extent (if any) the club will discipline the pair, although the team’s higher-ups can’t be pleased with them. That’s particularly true of Clevinger, who didn’t speak up even after Plesac was disciplined and reportedly took a flight with teammates after having been out. The Athletic’s Zack Meisel tweets that president of baseball operations Chris Antonetti declined to reveal whether Plesac and Clevinger would be subject to some form of discipline. For now, they’ll both be isolated away from the team for at least 72 hours while undergoing continued testing.
Makes me wonder if they’ll just opt out of the season now. Being on the restricted list sounds close enough to doing that anyway
I think it’s just a way to add a spot on the active rosters while they quarantine. Similar to injury list, but with no injury. That way if you need to add someone to the 40 man roster in their absence you can.
Trade them both!
To the Angels!
Keep dreaming Dumbass
Adell and Marsh are good starting points
Clev for Trout, straight up!
And end their careers, like every other Angel pitcher?
Most of the guys that have opted out is doing out of safety concerns for themselves, family members, and others. These two don’t strike me as those people.
Cespedes was out dancing the other night. I doubt you know the motives why people opted out.
Everyone knows Cespedes didn’t opt out for COVID.
When you opt out you don’t get paid.
No they are not opting out
I can’t imagine having to deal with today’s climate in my twenties. I hope both of them did not bring anything back to the team. I know everyone wants to call them selfish and entitled, but this is what we all did as kids. You live, learn, male mistakes and learn some more.
Logan Allen ….the next Kluber/Bieber
Go on…
The Indians have done pretty well with pitchers acquired from SD. Heck, even Phil Maton looked lights-out against the Whire Sox the other night..
Good for the Indians. And I have Plesac in one of my fantasy leagues, but it’s still the right move.
Clevinger should receive a ban similar to a Ped test, He knew the rules basically tweeted that he wasn’t going to follow them.
“On Friday, the 29-year-old Clevinger posted a song lyric on Twitter by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder that seems to underscore his defiant nature.”
“I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me,” Clevinger wrote.
Seriously a 29 yr old should have some common sense and maturity by that age. What a punk
Then he misled and put teammates/coaches at risk by hiding his actions Sunday night and then to make matters worse flying with the team .In late July he spoke of self discipline the players (hypocrite) Last month, Clevinger said he was in favor of the team having guidelines to keep players in check.
“This isn’t going to be a `run to daddy’ kind of thing. We’re going to handle it in-house. This is a player discipline thing. Keep the coaches, front office kind of out of it,” he said on July 30. “It puts a little extra accountability, kind of. Just having that trust in your teammates is a big thing. It’s a big thing on the field. If you feel your teammate doesn’t trust you off the field how are you going to feel like he trusts you when you get between the lines?”
He needs ” Daddy ” to take him out behind the woodshed because obviously this 29 yr old has the maturity of a 12 yr old. – what a dirtbag lowlife
What stand up guy and teammate.
sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/indians-clevinger-violat…
He should be shunned by all of baseball and when he hits free agency teams should have enough moral fortitude to not want this type of cancer in their clubhouse.
All of this.
I would ban him just for posting Eddie Vedder lyrics. Pearl Jam is super wack
This has gotta be a joke right? Multiple domestic violence offenders still playing and you want to ban someone for this? People need to take a deep breath.
tuccgoblue. They put the baseball season in jeopardy as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue at risk. Not to mention lives at risk.
So far I don’t think anyone has overreacted to their stupidity. As far as teams should not want them, I feel the same way about PED users. When teams sign them to long term contracts, I think it shows the lack of character of that team.
Yes. But not a lifetime ban.
100% agree tuccgoblue! Any idiot that thinks the ramifications to a silly game as what people do to people such as domestic violence are trash. The whole le this is a business routine is old, just because money is involved doesn’t make it more important than real life. If you didn’t make mistakes in your twenties you had a boring life. Shame on all of you trying to live vicariously through these athletes and expecting them to do what you want them to do. All they agreed to do is play baseball, not be live how you want them to. Same morons on here saying it will cost them in their next contract are the same ones begging to get them on their teams before. It won’t cost either of them a dime in their next contract if they pitch like they have in the past.
Starting to feel like the Indians aren’t going to win the World Series in 2020. I got them winning a title in 2048 on their 100th anniversary of their last championship. Stranger things have happened.
They are both unmitigated idiots who need to be severely punished. They won’t be, of course, since there’s no legitimate leadership in baseball at any level. But if these morons get off easy my respect for Terry Francona and the Cleveland organization which as been pretty high will go right down the toilet. God, why is everyone involved in baseball so effing stupid?
It’s not just baseball kreckert.
If you really want to punish Clevinger, don’t fine or suspend him. Make him get a haircut
@geotheo- yes definitely a haircut at a Stylist not a barber. You”ll hurt his feelings.
Let’s see. Hurl insults, get a 20 game suspension. Throw punches, get a 5 game suspension. Endanger the health of 28 teammates, coaches and their families, take two swab tests 24 hours apart and get reinstated in time for your next start. Yep, sounds about right! (Sorry for the sarcasm; it’s a character flaw that I have to work on.) These two are doooooshbags!
First, spot on. Second, sarcasm isn’t a character flaw. It’s a skill.
For some of us, sarcasm is a way of life.
I can hear the convo last Saturday night
Clevinger- hey Zack my man let’s go for a beer
Plesac- uhhh Mike ain’t that again the rules?
Clevinger- Rules?? dude they don’t apply to us , we are hot sh#t SP pictures they won’t do sh#t to us.
Plesac- ok but what about that stuff you said about teammates and trust
Clevinger- my dude i didn’t mean that stuff it was all just words and they too dumb to know it !
They are f$%king with the integrity of the game (what’s left of it ) , teammates/staff health, potential to cause an outbreak that might be the final straw that leads to the season cancellation and loss of millions.
But hey, F the fans, teammates and the game i’m badass Mike Clevinger and my side kick Plesac .
Ban both for the season. no pay, no service time.
Send a message to other clueless twits
So they receive salary and service time for being selfish assholes?
It has not been decided yet by the Indians whether Clevinger and Plesac will face a fine or suspension
They want to work from home too
They have to stand up and be held accountable in front of their own team mates and staff. Believe me, that’s not easy. Let’s just hope those two remain covid clean for the next 2 weeks and go from there.
Those without sin cast the first stone…..
Exactly! Most of these losers are just begging for bans and trades because they don’t want their teams to face these 2 young men.
Players should just claim they’re out protesting states letting small businesses go under by supporting local businesses.
Remember in Robocop when Corporate America aids criminals and incites riots to lower property values to buy up the city while privatizing the police force?
Man science fiction is crazy.
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
This is just a flex unless they’re serious about just throwing the season away…..which would be dope go royals 50-10
It’s funny reading people’s comments on these threads.
Same people condemning Clevinger and Plesac on here probably supported protestors out in the streets for hours, no masks, and within 6 inches of each other shoulder to shoulder marching.
If it wasn’t for double standards most people wouldn’t have any standards at all.
What makes you think i support protesters without mask and distancing? That’s an assumption on your part bud.
Personally i think anyone in large groups without masks/distancing should be fined.
Protests/Beaches/Sturgis
But hey i care about other peoples well being not just my own .
If MLB doesn’t put their foot down and stop these clown who think they are “special” and the rules don’t apply to them , well the season will be cancelled and we will all lose out. Players/Staff will lose their income. Owners will lose money and Fans will lose out on the joy of watching .
Plesac breaking protocol is a knucklehead move,no question.
Clevinger joining Plesac in breaking said protocol and then lying to the organization and his teammates about it and then getting on a plane with a fellow member of the rotation who has Acute Myeloid Leukemia is a whole other thing.
I would like to see Clevinger defend his actions to Carlos Carrasco’s wife and kids.
Clevinger has lost any respect I had for him,but who cares about me.
His teammates, on the other hand, will never be able to completely trust and or respect him again.
That’s worse than any fine or suspension.
All for a couple of brewskis.
Now this agree with 100%!
Some people need to grow up. When I saw Plesac’s new “doo”, how proud he was of it and anxious to show it off, I knew he wasn’t the mature guy I thought he was. And, Clevinger, enough said. They were just living up to the image they were advertising.