The consequences for yesterdays’ Yankees-Tigers brawl have come down from the commissioner’s office and in the event you really enjoy baseball players being punished beyond the initial ejections from a fight, then this is your lucky day.
MLB announced suspensions and fines to the Yankees and Tigers and oh boy are there a lot of them
Everyone gets a fine!
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On the Tigers side, Miguel Cabrera (who started the whole thing by fighting Austin Romine) is suspended for seven games. Alex Wilson got his own four-game suspension for throwing at Todd Frazier, and the team’s manager Brad Ausmus was suspended for one game for Wilson’s actions.
Those three also got fined, as well as shortstop Jose Iglesias, who was added to the list for his own piece of the scuffle.
On the Yankees side of things, catcher Gary Sanchez and backup catcher Romine both got suspended — four games for the former and only two games for the latter. The Yankees will try to stagger these suspensions through appeal, and are going to have to call up a third catcher while one or both of them are out.
Joe Girardi, Rob Thomson, Brett Gardner, Tommy Kahnle, Clint Frazier and Carrett Gooper — er, Garrett Cooper — all got fined as well. In the case of the last two on the list, their fines stemmed from being on the field while on the disabled list.
Boys just can’t resist a fight when the opportunity presents itself!
Other than their catching conundrum, these suspensions won’t really affect the Yankees’ playoff push other than the fact that Sanchez won’t be able to mash dingers for a short stretch of games.
If Wilson delays his suspension through appeal, Ausmus’ suspension will kick in the same day that his does.
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