The Athletic’s Brittany Ghiroli reported this afternoon that Washington Nationals’ infielder Starlin Castro is being placed on administrative leave today as the league investigates a, “domestic violence incident earlier this summer,” as Ghiroli wrote just now.
Administrative leave, Ghiroli notes, is for a seven-day period during which, “Castro still gets paid and does not lose service time,” and it can then be extended, “in week-long increments if both Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agree.”
An important note included by Ghiroli is that a player going on administrative leave, “is not an admission of guilt, but rather a chance for the league to investigate the matter.