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The MLB and MLBPA have extended administrative leave for Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco through July 14, per the Tampa Bay Times' Marc Topkin and ESPN's Alden Gonzalez.
Gonzalez described the six-and-a-half week extension as "a procedural move to buy more time for new developments to materialize in a potential criminal case."
Franco has been on administrative leave since last August, following social media rumors alleging he had engaged in a relationship with a minor. Prosecutors from his native Dominican Republic subsequently accused him of having a relationship with a 14-year-old girl when he was 21.