Partner Artie McConnell comments on the challenges of today’s legalized sports betting in a Bloomberg article titled “Cleveland Pitchers Face Trial in New York Over ‘Rigged’ Bets.” Published Nov. 2, 2026, the article looks at the trial of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, both accused of tipping off accomplices to specific pitches they would throw, with bettors using that information to place proposition bets with FanDuel, Inc., DraftKings Inc. and ESPN Bet (now known as Score Bet).
McConnell states that “microbets,” as they are sometimes called, are a different type of sports integrity risk and scandal than Major League Baseball dealt with in years past. As a result of the indictment against Clase and Ortiz, MLB has worked with major platforms to limit bets on a single pitch to $200 and to exclude them entirely from multi-leg parlays.
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