A day after federal prosecutors indicted Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz on charges related to an alleged bet rigging scheme, Major League Baseball announced new limits on legal sports betting in an effort to prevent similar incidents in the future.

The league announced Monday that effective immediately all MLB Authorized Gaming Operators will cap wagers on pitch-level markets at $200 and exclude those bets from parlays.

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The limits will cover more than 98% of the U.S. betting market, MLB says, and are intended to mitigate the risk that a single player might deliberately alter their performance for gambling purposes in a similar way.

The restrictions come in response to allegations that Clase a

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