Compilation of first pitch balls by Emmanuel Clase that are ‘believed’ to be in question during his sports betting investigation.

36 comments

1. lol 32 seconds didnt even clear the grass

2. I’ve seen enough. Some of those were on purpose.

3. That swing tho

4. Dude can’t save that many games and look super dominant while doing it, then fire off these pitches like no one gonna notice lol

5. Brought to you by Draftkings.

6. Oh, so I COULD be a major league pitcher

7. The second to last one the catcher looks like “seriously?!?!” He knew

8. I’m no FBI agent but body language screams: “alright got that over with throw me the ball back and let’s get on with it”

9. His friends must’ve been pissed at Pages for swinging at that lol

10. How much was he making off the scheme? Or was this a Puig type Tom Clancy novel?

    It makes sense for the minor leaguers/fringe MLB players, but Clase sustainably is worth millions for several years

11. Pages messed up one of his bets, lol

12. I don’t get it. What are these prop bets? How often he starts a count 1-0 or something?

13. Who could’ve guessed that legalizing sports betting and all the major sports endorsing it would lead to shit like this?

14. But isn’t at least some of the fault here with the fact that it is now totally legal to bet on absurdly insignificant aspects of every sporting contest? What tf did we THINK was going to happen?

15. Throwing it in the dirt like it’s a cricket match lol. May as well have been conspicuously whistling.

16. He started spiking the ball like a qb 🤣

17. I mean he took Pages’ soul at 0:40

18. 32s pitch track is the farthest from the plate ever??

19. So when do we start getting investigations on the umpires?

20. Javi Baez still swings at these pitches.

21. Idiot here: Can someone explain the betting parameters? What is Clase likely betting on here? Can he and others bet on each pitch thrown? Or is he trying to walk the guy? ELI10.

22. Love the Bet365 advertisment behind home plate at 0:46 in the video… the irony

23. Idk. Has he always been wild early or not? Did all his other pitches go in the strike zone? I mean kind of regardless if someone’s betting abnormally large bets on Clase’s first pitch you still have to connect him to the person.

24. I have a draft kings ad on this post lol

25. Players justify to themselves that it’s only one pitch then they will try to get the batter out so the outcome is not changed. They also believe they will never get caught because it’s a random pitch, but they don’t realize how bets are tracked and a large betting volume that is right and is way outside the statistical norms of betting volume will be easily flagged. Some of those pitches they flagged are so obvious!

26. Wait wait wait hold up, I’m pretty ignorant to sports betting because honestly I’d probably become addicted and have a problem with it, but you can bet on first pitch balls and strikes? And any sports franchise thinks they can keep it under wraps?

27. Anyone else find the irony in that there are gambling site advertisements in just about every single one of these clips?

28. The swing needs to be investigated

29. But the commercials during last night’s Rangers game told me that sports betting was a good thing

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31. me watching the in at the feet pitches: these ones seem fine actually

    me watching him spike them in the grass: oh ok yeah he’s fucked

    me watching the pages swing: it’s counter-betting!

32. He should have plunked the Bet365 ad to remove all doubt

33. Hope he has an interpreter

34. Another way to look at it is that by legalizing and regulating it, the industry can expose more of this stuff that previously would have gone unnoticed before.

35. The ad directly under this video is promoting PrizePicks…smh

36. The catcher had to have known something was up (not at all suggesting he was complicit) but he’s gotta be thinking “first pitch for him always sucks, be ready”