MLB locations Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias on administrative depart after arrest

LOS ANGELES — Julio Urías was positioned on administrative depart indefinitely by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, three days after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher was arrested on suspicion of corporal harm on a partner or cohabitant.

The depart was imposed underneath baseball’s joint home violence, sexual assault and little one abuse coverage adopted by MLB and the gamers’ union in 2015 and will be step one towards a suspension. Players are paid however can not play whereas on depart.

“They have to go through the process – players’ association, Julio’s group. Baseball is working through this,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts stated in Miami.

MLB and the union agreed to the depart, which didn’t specify a size. Absent an settlement, MLB may have imposed a depart of as much as seven days with the potential of a seven-day extension.

Urías was arrested late Sunday night time by Department of Public Safety officers in Exposition Park, south of downtown Los Angeles. The park is residence to BMO Stadium, the place Lionel Messi was taking part in in a Major League Soccer recreation with quite a few celebrities in attendance.

DPS provided no particulars Wednesday on the circumstances of the arrest, however requested for any witnesses with data relating to the incident to contact them.

Urías posted $50,000 bail and was launched early Monday. He is due in courtroom on Sept. 27.

Urías, a 27-year-old Mexican-born pitcher, was arrested in May 2019 for home battery. He was suspended 20 video games by MLB, however he wasn’t prosecuted by the Los Angeles metropolis lawyer on the situation he full a 52-week home violence counseling program. No participant has been suspended twice underneath MLB’s joint home violence coverage.

Urías is the second star participant on a contending workforce positioned on administrative depart by MLB in current weeks after Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who’s being investigated by authorities within the Dominican Republic for an alleged relationship with a minor.

Urías’ lawyer, Blair Berk, has not returned a message looking for remark.

DPS on Wednesday confirmed Urías’ arrest for a violation of Penal Code 273.5, which is corporal harm on a partner or cohabitant. Corporal harm on a partner requires a bodily harm being willfully attributable to bodily power and is a felony.

Urías shouldn’t be with the Dodgers in Miami, the place they’re taking part in a three-game collection towards the Marlins. He was scheduled to make his subsequent begin Thursday, and Roberts stated Ryan Pepiot will substitute Urías on the mound.

“The Dodgers take all allegations of the kind in this case very seriously, and we do not condone or excuse any acts of domestic violence,” the workforce stated in an announcement.

Asked whether or not a choice on the case will likely be made through the season, Roberts stated he doesn’t know sufficient but.

“Obviously, these are very serious circumstances,” he stated. “I would expect it to take the time needed to make sure the right actions are taken.”

The Dodgers introduced Wednesday they’re changing Urías’ bobblehead promotion on Sept. 21 with a giveaway of choose “premium bobbleheads.”

Then-Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer was positioned on administrative depart by MLB in July 2021 after an allegation of assault was made by a lady towards him. The lady stated Bauer assaulted her on two completely different events throughout what she stated started as consensual sexual encounters between the 2.

Bauer denied the allegation, saying the encounters have been consensual.

In April 2022, MLB suspended him for 324 video games with out pay underneath the home violence coverage. Bauer turned the primary participant to attraction and in December of that 12 months an arbitrator diminished his suspension to 194 video games. He was reinstated instantly, however had his pay docked for the primary 50 video games of the 2023 season.

In January, the Dodgers designated him for project and he was launched six days later. In March, Bauer signed to pitch in Japan’s Central League.