Baseball rules state a player needs to average 3.1 plate appearances for each of his team's games to become a batting, slugging or on-base percentage champion.
WSJ: MLB: Melky Cabrera Disqualified From National League Batting Title
Under section 10.22(a) of the Official Baseball Rules, he would win the batting title if an extra hitless at-bat is added to his average and it remained higher than that of any other qualifying player.
WSJ: MLB: Melky Cabrera Disqualified From National League Batting Title
Professional baseball has rules to ban gambling not because it is illegal per se, but because it damages the MLB brand.
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But since the rules of baseball require nine players in the lineup and since the pitching staff probably wouldn't appreciate all nine of them playing infield the Mets needed to come to a resolution.
Neither of them, in my opinion, were proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to have broken baseball's laws and rules.
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"To have this sort of technicality of all technicalities let a player off ... it's just a sad day for all the clean players and those that abide by the rules within professional baseball, " Tygart said.
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Sports like basketball or baseball stay popular even though the rules almost never change.
All three served suspensions for violations of baseball's performance enhancing drug rules last year.
More than any other team, Spain embodies one of the enduring quirks of the tournament, which is now in its third edition: Loose rules that allow fringe countries to compensate for a lack of baseball talent by signing just about anyone who could remotely identify with them.
He was stripped of those medals though for violating the Olympic rules on amateurism when it was revealed he played two years of semi-pro baseball.
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