Yasiel Puig Case

What is Nick Gibbons’s vision in this case study? How is it similar to or different from the vision of the owners of the paper? Discuss the unique challenges a leader faces when required to implement a vision of his or her superiors.

A suspension from an entire season and thousands of dollars of fine were issued and that seemed light with talks of being banned from baseball floating between the two parties. Major League Baseball took the right direction in the situation making an example of this group of players and especially Rodriguez (Quinn, Fish, and Gomez). This no tolerance policy could hopefully put a stop to the use of steroid in this great sport and get the game back to its original form.

     However, the Black Sox player’s joy wave quite short-lived. The day after the jury's verdicts had been handed down, the new Commissioner of Baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis,

Peter Rose has been banned from baseball for over 25 years. Now that the current Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Bud Selig, is about to retire many fans are hoping

In 1919, eight of the Chicago White Sox allegedly threw the World Series. Charles Comiskey was the ruthless owner of the White Sox and was the main motive of the sox to throw the series. Chick Gandil was the first player to get involved and then he spread it to the other players on the team. The act by these players would be called the Black Sox Scandal. The Scandal nearly ruined America's pastime. The baseball commissioner, Judge Landis, banned all eight of the players for life. Based on how Joe Jackson played in the world series and how he was proven innocent in a court of law, he should be reinstated into baseball and be put in the hall of fame.

The 1919 world series was a Major League Baseball match that was intentionally rigged in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from gamblers. The fallout from the scandal resulted in the appointment of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the first Commissioner of Baseball granting him absolute control over the sport in order to restore its integrity. Despite peopel in a public trial in 1921 Judge Landis permanently banned the eight men from professional baseball. Despite requests for reinstatement in the decades that followed particularly in the case of Shoeless Joe Jackson the ban remains in force as of 2017.

The Black Sox scandal is similar to what is going on today with the New England Patriots football team, and their quarterback Tom Brady. Brady has been suspended for four games in the upcoming season, because “he ruined the integrity of the sport”, for is actions in deflategate. The players involved in the Black Sox scandal were suspended and never reinstated for their part in the throwing of the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.

Jackson’s reinstatement was first up for debate in 1989 when he was denied by former MLB commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, who stated his

Rodriguez has led a very controversial 22-year baseball career. His lowest moment being when he was infamously suspended for the entire 2014 season following the Biogenesis investigation. The longest suspension ever served in Major League Baseball history.

There has been cases where athletes can several games after they have broken the law, while others get caught on the spot.  For example, The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced in 2010 that, “New York Yankees Minor League pitcher Amauri Sanit has been suspended for 50 games after testing positive for Mephentermine, a performance-enhancing substance, in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Sanit, a Cuban defector, has gone 1-2 with an 8.69 ERA over 12 games” (hhhvgh). This quote proves that, in this particular case, the player went several games without being punished by the league. In another account, the author explains a player’s case, “Tinordi has been suspended 20 games without pay for violating the terms of the NHL and NHL Players' Association joint performance enhancing substances” (Hamilton 52). This quote shows that these two players had different amount of games suspended, yet they did the same thing. This proves the point that professional athletes should be banned from their sport if they commit a crime because they can go several games without punishment, which is unfair to the players that follow the rules, and since there is no consistency of punishments, being banned creates a sense of

The TV cameras documented a verbal exchange between Machado and Pedroia in the aftermath of the ejections. Machado seemed to be accusing Pedroia of instigating the payback, while Pedroia vehemently denied it, claiming if he were behind the beaning attempt it would have happened during Game 1 of the series. Pedroia followed that by saying, “It's not me, it's them," meaning the Barnes/Christian Vazquez battery. As the heart and soul of the Red Sox, and as great of a player as Pedroia is, it's surprising he would publicly deflect blame for the beaning to his teammates. Even if that claim is true, there's a time and place for everything, and Pedroia probably should have had the exchange with Machado privately and not exposed his teammates so openly.

During a game against the Philadelphia Phillies, manager Ben Chapman taunted Jackie Robinson. He yelled racist remarks trying to get

“Charles Finley, owner of the World champion Oakland Athletics, was fined $7,000 and put on probation mid-way through the World Series. Second baseman Mike Andrews played poorly in the second game of the Series. The Mets had won the game in the 12th inning, after Andrews committed two errors, scoring four runs. In his anger, Finley attempted to place Andrews on the disabled list, saying he had a sore shoulder, and Andrews signed an agreement. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn did not allow Andrews to be placed on the disabled list, and fined Finley for three reasons” (1970s Sports History).

Alex Rodriguez has faced a lengthy amount of criticism primarily due to the way the situation was handled. One of the ways he tried combatting the allegations was to deny it in front of the public and criticize the MLB for trying to portray him as cheater. According to a CNN article written by Ray Sanchez, “Rodriguez claims he was the target of an MLB witch hunt” (Sanchez, 2014). He consistently stood by this position making him look like a victim of career sabotage. This was a poor way of dealing with the allegations because once he

Regarding your news, ‘’MLB suspends Padres GM Preller 30 days over Pomeranz trade (Sep. 15)’’, A.J Preller was suspended Thursday for 30 games without pay by Major League Baseball, for concealing player health information.