Major League Baseball has suspended free-agent pitcher Julio Urías through the 2025 All-Star break for violating the league’s joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy, commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday.
The former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher pleaded no contest last May to a domestic battery charge stemming from a September 2023 arrest.
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“Having reviewed all of the available evidence, I have concluded that Mr. Urías violated our policy and that discipline is appropriate,” Manfred said in a statement.
Urías, 28, will be reinstated from the restricted list July 17. The league said Urías has also agreed to submit to an evaluation by MLB’s joint policy board and to comply with the board’s recommendations. “MLB will continue to make support services available to Urías and his family,” MLB said in its announcement.
Authorities arrested Urías on Sept. 3, 2023 on suspicion of felony domestic violence for an alleged altercation that took place outside of a Major League Soccer game at BMO Stadium in L.A.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office declined to file felony charges in January 2024, referring the case to the city attorney’s office for misdemeanor filing considerations. Urías was “engaged in an argument whereby the Defendant pushed the Victim against a fence and pulled her by the hair or shoulders,” according to the county’s report. However, the county deemed that “neither the Victim’s injuries nor the Defendant’s criminal history justify a felony filing.”
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office charged Urías with five misdemeanors — one count of spousal battery, two counts of domestic battery involving a dating relationship, one count of false imprisonment and one count of assault — in April 2024.
In May, when he pleaded no contest, Urías was placed on 36 months of summary probation and ordered to complete 30 days of community labor. Urías also was ordered to complete a 52-week domestic violence counseling course and pay a domestic violence fund fee.
MLB placed Urías on paid administrative leave on Sept. 6, 2023. He did not play in another game for the Dodgers that season and has remained a free agent.
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The league and players’ union’s joint domestic violence policy stipulates the league can still punish a player even without criminal charges. Urías served a 20-game suspension in 2019 after he was arrested and not charged on misdemeanor suspicion of domestic violence for an alleged incident at a Los Angeles mall.
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