San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano came under heavy scrutiny when news leaked yesterday that he was being investigated for potentially betting on MLB games.
The league completed its investigation quickly as it does not take issues like this lightly, and one major insider announced the official ruling to go along with a hilariously bad stat relevant to the situation.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan shared that Marcano has been officially banned from Major League Baseball for gambling, and according to MLB, he won only 4.3 percent of the 231 MLB-related bets he placed.
San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano has been banned from baseball for gambling.
According to MLB, Marcano won only 4.3% of the 231 MLB-related bets he placed.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) June 4, 2024
When it comes to sports betting, if a bettor wins upwards of 55 percent of their bets, they are among the best in the world.
To win only 4.3 percent has to put Marcano in the conversation for worst sports bettor of all time.
This man put his entire career at risk and paid the ultimate price, and he didn’t even win money out of it.
MLB said that Marcano placed over $150,000 worth of bets, many of which included the Pittsburgh Pirates, which was the team he played for at the time.
He did not appear in any of the 25 Pirates games that he bet on because he was injured.
A .200 batting average is often considered the threshold for offensive futility and is called The Mendoza Line, stemming from former light-hitting shortstop Mario Mendoza, who failed to hit .200 in five of his nine major league seasons.
A 4.3 percent betting average should henceforth be known as The Marcano Line.
