Juan Carlos Oviedo Suspended 6 Weeks

[gladdyontherise]

MLB To Suspend Oviedo For Six Weeks: MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com

Major League Baseball will suspend Juan Carlos Oviedo (formerly known as Leo Nunez) for six weeks following his removal from the restricted list, according to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald.

Oviedo is currently home in the Dominican Republic where he's performing community service required to acquire a visa that will allow him to come back to the United States. Jackson calls the acquistion of a visa "inevitable," but doesn't offer a timetable for when it will happen. Perhaps most importantly for the Marlins, they aren't required to pay any of Oviedo's $6MM salary while he's on the restricted list or suspended.

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I know Jeremy is excited, because now it sets the standard for Faust...I mean Roberto Hernandez

[jsab4807]

Kinda confused....why was he suspended? (article won't load)

[gladdyontherise]

Kinda confused....why was he suspended? (article won't load)

For faking his identity.

[jsab4807]

Figured as much, but don't really understand why MLB's allowed to suspend him for something like THAT, that's all.

[jwgreen68]

Suspension should be the least of his worries. People that fake their identity and obtain an illegal visa are usually not allowed to reenter the U.S. . 9/11 changed a lot of laws. He's really lucky he's not been jailed and permanently restricted from U.S. soil. How does doing community service in the Dominican Republic satisfy the crime he committed in the U.S. ? If you're convicted of littering in Michigan, they don't take you to Mexico to pick trash up beside the roadways as your community service.

[bakemeister52]

dumb and dumb on his part