{"id":535390,"date":"2026-03-20T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535390\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:25:07","slug":"guardians-rhps-emmanuel-clase-luis-ortiz-placed-on-unpaid-leave-amid-mlb-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/535390\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians RHPs Emmanuel Clase, Luis Ortiz Placed on Unpaid Leave Amid MLB Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> won&#8217;t have to pay indicted pitchers <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/emmanuel-clase-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emmanuel Clase<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/luis-ortiz-3-player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Luis Ortiz<\/a> while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Major League Baseball<\/a>&#8216;s investigation continues into allegations of pitch-rigging for gamblers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Ortiz was placed on paid leave last July 3 and Clase on July 28, and they received their salaries while they didn&#8217;t pitch for the remainder of the season. They were indicted on federal charges on Nov. 9 and a trial is scheduled for May 4 but could be delayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">&#8220;As the legal proceedings involving Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz continue to move forward, MLB and the MLBPA have agreed that both players will remain on non-disciplinary leave from the club without pay until further notice,&#8221; Major League Baseball said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">&#8220;This agreement is not an admission of any wrongdoing by Clase or Ortiz,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;MLB has been closely monitoring the matter since alerting federal law enforcement at the outset of its investigation and will have no further comment until its investigation has been completed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Clase has a $6 million salary in 2026, the final guaranteed season of a $20 million, five-year contract. Ortiz does not have enough service time for arbitration and makes around the minimum salary of $780,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Clase and Ortiz are charged by federal prosecutors with accepting several thousand dollars in payoffs to help two gamblers from their native Dominican Republic win at least $460,000 by placing more than 100 in-game prop bets and parlays on the velocity and the outcome of certain pitches. Charges include wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to influence sporting contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">They entered not guilty pleas in Brooklyn federal court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Clase is a three-time All-Star and two-time American League Reliever of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Guardians won&#8217;t have to pay indicted pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz while Major League Baseball&#8216;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2320,29386,240218,13090,363,99],"class_list":["post-535390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-emmanuel-clase","tag-luis-l-ortiz","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}