MLB Now Investigating Jarred Cosart For Gambling, Cosart Or Possibly Fake Cosart Claims He Was "Hacked"

(Source) Starting pitcher Jarred Cosart came to the Miami Marlins last summer hoping for a fresh start after a sometimes rocky tenure with the Houston Astros. Instead, he finds himself this morning amidst a Twitter-storm of allegations tying him to gambling. MLB is now looking into the claims, a spokesman tells New Times.

Cosart’s troubles started last night with a gambling expert on Twitter alleging he’d direct messaged a colleague asking for betting advice. Cosart later deleted his own account as tweets piled up accusing him of gambling and speculating whether he’d ever bet on baseball, which would be a serious violation of the game’s rules.

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Well now we wait and see I guess. Like I said in my original blog I doubt anything comes of this. Obviously I’m praying it uncovers some wild MLB gambling ring, something that will give us the best 30/30 of all time but if I had to guess it’s simply, Jarred Cosart bets on March Madness and now he’ll get a slap on the wrist by the MLB.

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Either way, it seems as though Jarred is handling this in just about the worst way possible. Locked his twitter account, deleted his twitter account, allegedly started a new twitter account to tweet that the original twitter account was hacked.

And then deleted that one. Probably threw his computer in the ocean and his phone down a well just to be safe as well. I don’t know Jarred, maybe just chill out. Acting like an emo teenager deleting accounts and tweets doesn’t really scream innocent and nothing to hide, but that’s just me.