Yankees’ Jimmy Cordero suspended for the rest of the season for violating domestic violence policy

Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero was suspended for the rest of the season by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday for violating the sport’s domestic violence policy.

MLB said the 31-year-old right-hander accepted the suspension and will miss the season’s final 76 games and the postseason.

Cordero was 3-2 with a 3.86 ERA in one start and 30 relief appearances and has a $720,000 salary, the major league minimum. 

He missed the 2021 season after Tommy John surgery while with the Chicago White Sox organization and spent 2022 with the Yankees’ Triple-A team at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

The Yankees said in a statement they supported MLB’s discipline and ‘there is no justification for domestic violence.’

New York Yankees pitcher Jimmy Cordero has been suspended for the rest of the season

Cordero joins Domingo Germán (L) & Aroldis Chapman (R) as Yankees suspended under this policy. Across MLB history, 18 players have been suspended for domestic violence

The longest suspension was given to Trevor Bauer, whose reduced sentence was 194 games

New York pitcher Domingo Germán was given an 81-game suspension under the domestic violence policy that he served in 2019 and 2020. 

Germán last week pitched MLB’s 24th perfect game.

In the entire history of major league baseball, 18 players have been suspended for domestic violence.

Cordero is the third member of the New York Yankees to get suspended for domestic violence, alongside Germán and Aroldis Chapman.

Five players have been suspended for domestic violence in this decade alone.

The harshest punishment that has been given to a player in violation of this policy was former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, who was suspended for 324 games.

An arbiter reduced that suspension down to 194 games, which is still the longest suspension. Bauer is currently pitching in Japan.