CLEVELAND, Ohio — In a revealing development that signals the far-reaching consequences of MLB’s ongoing gambling investigation, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been rejected by Dominican Winter League officials despite being fully prepared to suit up for Estrellas Orientales, the team located in Ortiz’s hometown of San Pedro de Macoris.

This unexpected rejection has sent shockwaves through baseball circles and offers a sobering glimpse into what might be coming for the two Cleveland pitchers.

“The league, it turns out, came out and denied them their applications to play, basically rejecting them from being added to their team’s roster despite them having worked out and been ready to go,” explained Joe Noga, cleveland.com Guardians beat reporter on the latest Cleveland Baseball Talk

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