This isn't a great look.
The Internet works quickly.
Within minutes of news that Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase had been placed on leave by MLB as part of a sports-betting investigation, social media sleuths had already uncovered the pitch that may have told on Clase.
Here, have a watch:
— Max Goldstein (@MaxSportsStudio) July 28, 2025
News could eventually emerge as to whether that was one of the actions with suspicious activity or not.
But if you were a betting man, you'd bet on that one.
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It was relatively low leverage, the first pitch of an inning in a five-run game. And according to the poster of that video, Goldstein, this is the "lowest" pitch Clase has thrown all year on the vertical axis.
Clase's teammate, Luis Ortiz, was placed on leave after two pitches he had thrown this season aligned with suspicious betting activity on the wager "to throw a ball," when Ortiz threw two sliders well wide of the strike zone.
If that's what Clase is involved in, this would fit the same mold.
This isn't the end of the story, but it might be part of it.
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