{"id":1677,"date":"2025-06-21T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1677\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T07:01:10","slug":"mlb-issues-four-game-suspension-to-dennis-santana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1677\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Issues Four-Game Suspension To Dennis Santana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball has imposed a four-game suspension on Pirates reliever\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/santade01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dennis Santana<\/a><\/strong> for \u201caggressive conduct toward a fan\u201d during the second game of yesterday\u2019s doubleheader in Detroit. Santana, who was also fined an undisclosed amount, elected to appeal. He remains on the roster pending the result of that process.<\/p>\n<p>Santana was in the bullpen last night when he got into a spat with a heckler in the first row. He jumped and took a swipe at the fan, though he didn\u2019t appear to make contact (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_shadky\/status\/1935859736076775660\">social media video<\/a>). The fan was removed by Comerica Park security. Santana was not ejected and was called upon in the ninth inning. He recorded one out before the game went into a rain delay that led the Pirates to remove him rather than risk warming him back up.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Santana told the Pittsburgh beat via an interpreter that the fan had \u201ccrossed a line.\u201d He declined to provide any more specifics (link via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/pirates\/2025\/06\/20\/dennis-santana-detroit-comerica-park-baseball\/stories\/202506190099\" rel=\"noopener\">Noah Hiles of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>). Santana conceded that did not \u201cjustify (his) actions\u201d and said he\u2019d already expressed regret to manager Don Kelly. \u201cYou guys know me and I\u2019m a calm demeanor type of person,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cI\u2019ve never had any issues with any of the teams that I\u2019ve played for and I guess the guy crossed the line a few times. I would not like to go into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A waiver claim from the Yankees last June, Santana has been quietly excellent over a full calendar year since landing in Pittsburgh. He owns a 1.72 ERA with five saves and nine holds through 32 appearances this season. Santana has a year and a half of remaining arbitration control and should be a solid trade chip as the Pirates approach deadline season as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/06\/trade-deadline-outlook-pittsburgh-pirates.html\" rel=\"noopener\">clear sellers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball has imposed a four-game suspension on Pirates reliever\u00a0Dennis Santana for \u201caggressive conduct toward a fan\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1883,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-1677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dennis-santana","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114720072355083755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}