Ubaldo Jimenez Suspended Five Games and Fined for Drilling Troy Tulowitzki

According to baseball beat writers Paul Hoynes and Jordan Bastian, who were all over yesterday’s beaning festivities in Phoenix, Ubaldo Jimenez has been suspended for five games and fined an undisclosed amount for plunking former teammate Troy Tulowitzki.

The commissioner’s office had a pretty easy decision on this one as Ubaldo’s intentions could not have been more obvious considering the plunking came after Tulowitzki’s suggestion he basically shut up and move on from his less than jovial experience in Colorado.

One request: Can MLB spare us the false drama — oh my god, five games — and start suspending starting pitchers in … starts? A five game suspension means he’ll miss one measly outing unless they secretly believe Ubaldo could become a factor for the Indians as a late innings pinch-runner.

Jimenez has already made it known he’ll appeal the suspension.

Previously: Ubaldo Jimenez Just Drilled Former Teammate Troy Tulowitzki

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17 Responses to “Ubaldo Jimenez Suspended Five Games and Fined for Drilling Troy Tulowitzki”

Nathan Wind Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 6:43 PM

They need to suspend starting pitchers for “starts” – either by explicitly doing that or making their suspensions for 20 games, etc. This is the only sport where a player can “get physical” with another without having to worry about retaliation.

spencer096 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 6:49 PM

5 games, makes sense…two fewer games because the suspension would’ve been 7 if ubaldo had the velocity he had two years ago.

ms621 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:00 PM

5 games, makes sense…two fewer games because the suspension would’ve been 7 if ubaldo had the velocity he had two years ago.

Ouch. Sick burn. Watch yourself next time you’re in the batter’s box.

spencer096 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:04 PM

/thinks of way to spin golf into reply

uh…golf.

//i thought this shit was supposed to make you more creative

spencer096 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:06 PM

ms621…pretty sweet documentary on military channel right now. british SIG under herbert buck…bunch of german speaking palestinian jews who’d operate behind enemy lines fucking with the afrika korps. never heard of this unit before.

spencer096 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:09 PM

this is some straight up cia sog shit.

ms621 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:32 PM

spencer, don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I’d turn to it, but I’ve got to keep chugging along on my thesis. I’m almost one-third finished, but I took off work today to get to this point.

That’s some interesting stuff though. The North African campaign is one of my favorite parts of World War II for the amount of varied units that were involved and the foreign nature of the climate to everyone who was fighting in it.

spencer096 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:37 PM

north africa was like a basketball court for tank tactics it seems…or like a giant playbook. and you had the SAS and rommel, alamein and everything leading up to the invasion of sicily…really cool shit.

least favorite? stalingrad and the japanese invasion of china…just horribly depressing.

Shatner, Dead? Shatner IS Dead. Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:42 PM

They need to suspend starting pitchers for “starts” – either by explicitly doing that or making their suspensions for 20 games, etc.

But then a team can turn around and say “Well, you said he was suspended five starts and we scheduled him to pitch everyone one of these last five games.” I do agree, however, that the league needs to do more. A guy called into MLB Radio and said “What happened if he drilled him in the ankle? Ubaldo doesn’t exactly have the greatest control. It could have broken one of Tulo’s bones. All that over saying Ubaldo needs to worry about his own situation?”

jdeeser5 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:43 PM

This why the players have the best union in sports. The MLBPA would never let Goodell pull what he pulls in the NLF.

ms621 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:45 PM

Stalingrad is interesting, but the entire Russian front, in both World Wars for that matter, is highly depressing. Lives, vehicles, planes, and weapons were gobbled up by huge mouthfuls on that front. I read about it again and again and I still have trouble comprehending the vast numbers of men, tanks, guns, shells, planes, and casualties that were part of it.

North Africa was basically a blank slate for tank commanders. They could do anything they wanted. But that was the problem. British tank unit commanders in particular were mostly former cavalry officers. They still thought of tanks, therefore, like cavalry. The tank was a means for exploiting tactical advantage and maneuever. It took Montgomery getting to Egypt for 8th Army to realize that to prevent the back and forth campaigns of maneuver that each side kept waging, that he was going to have to launch a mauling infantry attack, heavily supported by artillery. And he was right.

The Wayne Fontes Safari Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:46 PM

This why the players have the best union in sports. The MLBPA would never let Goodell pull what he pulls in the NLF.

Or the worst depending on perspective.

spencer096 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 7:56 PM

i wish i knew enough to think of something to reply…but i don’t.

/montgomery was the twink to rommel’s power bottom

ms621 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 8:07 PM

John Keegan wrote that the North African campaign was an odd, almost anachronistic one because it was essentially two armies (British and German) forming a small core to larger more varied force; the Italians are outnumbered the Germans in Afrika Korps (Afrika Korps technically only refers to the German forces, the principal Italian formation, if memory serves, was the Italian 10th Army). The 8th Army on the other side was a polyglot force of English regiments, Scottish Highlanders, South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, and Free French. 8th Army became even more varied when it moved into Italy and Canadians, Poles, French Algerians, and a Jewish Brigade all became a part of its order of battle.

But the campaign was also anachronistic because it was essentially the sort of hit and run, moveable column colonial campaign that European armies conducted throughout Africa and parts of Asia for much of the previous century. It was almost a gentleman’s campaign compared to Russia and even what Northwest Europe would later become.

ms621 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 8:07 PM

/montgomery was the twink to rommel’s power bottom

Also, I’m keeping and reusing this. Brilliant.

spencer096 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 8:17 PM

It was almost a gentleman’s campaign compared to Russia and even what Northwest Europe would later become.

true story…it was as “professional” as it could’ve been, i guess. spread out and in the desert…in stark contrast to the pacific where there were thousands of people on a bunch of tiny islands, moving a foot at a time.

helps that neither side was totally desperate too.

ms621 Says:
April 2nd, 2012 at 8:26 PM

Slightly different situation as well. Others have written about it far better than I can, including Paul Fussell, but the intensity and desperation and life and death nature of the Pacific is due in part to the racial attitudes that many Americans had towards Asians in general and the Japanese in particular. It was not so much a struggle against fellow humans, but a crusade against a sub-human barbaric race. And atrocities committed by both sides and the conditions in which the forces fought did nothing to take away the apocalyptic nature of some of the campaigns.

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