{"id":32315,"date":"2025-02-04T00:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/mlb-fires-umpire-pat-hoberg-over-shared-account-with-friend-who-bet-on-baseball\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T00:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:07:43","slug":"mlb-fires-umpire-pat-hoberg-over-shared-account-with-friend-who-bet-on-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/mlb-fires-umpire-pat-hoberg-over-shared-account-with-friend-who-bet-on-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB fires umpire Pat Hoberg over shared account with friend who bet on baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>League finds no evidence umpire manipulated games<\/li>\n<li>Hoberg cannot apply for reinstatement until 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting electronic messages pertinent to the league\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>MLB opened the investigation last February, and Hoberg did not umpire last season. While MLB said the investigation did not uncover evidence Hoberg personally bet on baseball or manipulated games, MLB senior vice president of on-field operations Michael Hill recommended in May last year that Hoberg be fired. Commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday he upheld Hill\u2019s decision. Among the highest-rated umpires at judging the strike zone, Hoberg can apply for reinstatement no earlier than 2026 spring training.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/03\/mlb-fires-umpire-pat-hoberg-over-shared-account-with-friend-who-bet-on-baseball\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League finds no evidence umpire manipulated games Hoberg cannot apply for reinstatement until 2026 Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting electronic messages pertinent to the league\u2019s investigation. MLB opened the investigation &#8230; <a title=\"MLB fires umpire Pat Hoberg over shared account with friend who bet on baseball\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/mlb-fires-umpire-pat-hoberg-over-shared-account-with-friend-who-bet-on-baseball\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MLB fires umpire Pat Hoberg over shared account with friend who bet on baseball\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}