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HANNAH KEYSER: Major
League Baseball

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announced that Yankees pitcher
Domingo German has been

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suspended for 81
games in violation

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of the domestic violence policy.

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The ban is retroactive
to last September,

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when German was engaged
in an altercation

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with his girlfriend following
a charity gala for CC Sabathia.

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He's already served 18
games of the suspension.

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That's the last nine games
of the regular season,

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plus the nine games
that the Yankees played

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in the postseason,
which means that German

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will miss the first 63
games of the 2020 season.

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81 games is a half
a season suspension.

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This is the fourth
longest suspension

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overall under this
policy, and it

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is the longest suspension ever
levied without formal charges.

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There were no charges
filed against German.

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There wasn't even
the police report.

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And that eclipses Addison
Russell's 40-game ban in 2018

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without formal criminal charges.

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This is an escalation.

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These bans are not actually
sort of precedent-based.

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Major League Baseball
is not a court of law.

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And although we
can't sort of ever

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know what happened
either that night

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or in the investigation
process, it

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does look like Major League
Baseball is overall getting

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tougher on domestic violence.