Major League Baseball has fired umpire Pat Hoberg after he shared sports betting accounts with a professional poker player ...

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred upheld the dismissal of umpire Pat Hoberg for violating the league's rules regarding gambling on baseball.

The 38-year-old Major League Baseball umpire has been praised over the years for being the best ball strike umpire in the league. Despite today's firing, he is eligible to reapply with the MLB no ...

Major League Baseball umpires are held to a high standard of personal ... Fay Vincent, former MLB commissioner during three ...

Umpire Pat Hoberg is the latest professional sports figure caught in a betting scandal. The 38-year-old Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on ... than $1 billion over the last three decades ...

Major League Baseball has upheld its decision to fire umpire Pat Hoberg for sharing sports betting accounts with a friend and professional poker player after Hoberg went through the appeals process.

Hoberg, MLB said, was fired for failing to “uphold the integrity of the game” when he shared sports betting accounts with a ...

The umpire was found to have shared sports betting accounts with a professional poker player who bet on baseball.

Over four-plus years ending in January 2024 ... In Hoberg’s statement Monday, shared by the Major League Baseball Umpires Association (via mlb.com), he said the “errors” revealed by MLB ...

The 38-year-old Hoberg debuted in Major League Baseball as an umpire in the 2014 season and has long generally been considered one of the best balls-and-strikes umpire in the league. He's worked ...

Major League Baseball has fired umpire Pat ... to disassociate himself as a Major League Umpire from Individual A's baseball betting for several years despite knowing that he was allowed to ...

Major League Baseball upheld a decision to fire umpire Pat Hoberg over a gambling situation on Monday. Hoberg is not banned from the sport and can apply for reinstatement next spring if he chooses.