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The appeal of Herrera's suspension is going to be interesting to watch. They made it clear that his gesture had nothing to do with the suspension (shocking that they didn't believe Lawrie), but the number of games for a reliever is unprecedented.
I'm good with it as long as this shows a shift in how MLB will handle people throwing at batters going forward.
As for no punishment for Lawrie trying to severely injure a player, it's ridiculous. If you watch all the take-out slides from that series by the A's, the Lawrie incident sticks out like a sore thumb in regards to how high his cleats were and the distance he slid through the bag. All the other A's slides stopped at the bag and shoes were on the ground.
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