Rob Carr/Getty Images(MIAMI, Fl.) — Jarred Cosart of the Miami Marlins has been fined by Major League Baseball for placing illegal bets on sporting events through a bookie.
Cosart, 24, drew attention after engaging in a Twitter argument that alleged he had bet on sports. Cosart has since deleted his Twitter account.
Baseball found that Cosart did not place bets on baseball.
“Major League Baseball has completed its investigation into Jarred Cosart’s possible connection to sports-related gambling,” the commissioner’s office said in a statement Friday. “The investigation did not reveal any evidence to suggest that Cosart, who fully cooperated with the investigation, bet on baseball.”
Baseball has always taken a hard stance against gambling of any kind involving its players. The 1919 Chicago Black Sox were believed to have thrown the World Series in exchange for money from gamblers and eight members of the team were banned from baseball. The All-Time hits leader, Pete Rose, has been banned from baseball since 1989 after it was discovered that he bet on games while acting as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
Cosart said in a statement through the players’ association that “I have never, nor would I ever, bet on” baseball.
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