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Pat Hoberg became a MLB umpire in 2014.
After he had worked 10 seasons in the league, Hoberg was investigated by Major League Baseball for gambling improprieties. He did not work games in 2024 and was fired last May. An appeal process began, and Monday MLB announced that their previous decision had been upheld.
Here’s the summary, from a MLB release:
The disciplinary action was taken due to Hoberg’s failure to uphold the integrity of the game by sharing sports betting accounts with a professional poker player and friend who bet on baseball and whom Hoberg should have known bet on baseball, and due to Hoberg’s intentional deletion of messages central to MLB’s investigation into his conduct.