{"id":121290,"date":"2025-06-21T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121290\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T21:48:11","slug":"sean-hjelles-wife-accuses-giants-pitcher-of-abuse-team-in-contact-with-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121290\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hjelle’s wife accuses Giants pitcher of abuse; team in contact with MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"

A day after San Francisco Giants<\/a>‘ reliever Sean Hjelle<\/a>‘s wife, Caroline, accused him of infidelity, family abandonment, and abuse in a viral TikTok, posted Friday, June 20, the team released a statement on the matter.<\/p>\n

“We are aware of these serious allegations,” the statement read. “We have been in contact with MLB. These type of allegations fall under their jurisdiction and we won’t be commenting further.”<\/p>\n

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The TikTok, which has garnered more than 3.5 million views and over 230,000 likes in less than 24 hours since it was posted, includes a caption that says, “When my MLB husband abandons us on Mothers Day a week after this (video was taken) once I finally found about his affairs and stopped putting up with his abuse, so I\u2019ve been raising two boys alone.”<\/p>\n

Hjelle did not comment to reporters<\/a> before Saturday’s game against the Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n

Before the game, Giants manager Bob Melvin said Hjelle was available to pitch on Saturday. Melvin acknowledged he was aware of the accusations.<\/p>\n

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“He told me about it last night,” Melvin told reporters. “We\u2019ve talked to MLB and at this point, it\u2019s in their jurisdiction so we can\u2019t comment on it any further.”<\/p>\n

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What else has Caroline Hjelle said on the matter?<\/p>\n

The San Jose Mercury News cited a Giants spokesperson, who said the couple is divorced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is unclear when the couple officially ended their marriage, but Caroline has several posts on her TikTok alluding to her struggles as a solo parent, dating back to October 2024, when she posted this video for the “17 Diapers” trend, meant to detail the struggles of early parenthood.<\/p>\n

On April 8 of this year, Hjelle posted another TikTok with the hashtag “divorce”, claiming she was “devastated” after “finding out all the lies.”<\/p>\n

Has Hjelle been important to the Giants’ success?<\/p>\n

The Giants have been one of the surprise teams of 2025 with a 42-34 record while sitting in second-place in the NL West. A large reason for that success has been their bullpen, which has posted an MLB-best 2.60 ERA.<\/p>\n

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Hjelle played a sizable role in the Giants’ bullpen in 2024, when he recorded a 3.90 ERA across 80\u2154 innings. However, he’s taken a large step back in 2025, with his ERA ballooning to 4.66, while his BB\/9 has increased massively from 1.6 in 2024 to 6.5 this year. Hjelle has pitched only 9\u2154 innings this season.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Sean Hjelle’s wife accuses Giants pitcher of abuse, abandonment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after San Francisco Giants‘ reliever Sean Hjelle‘s wife, Caroline, accused him of infidelity, family abandonment, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,136,25854,11714,4,43,80,66,19505,25855,468,4504,852,19484],"class_list":{"0":"post-121290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-caroline-hjelle","11":"tag-jacob-misiorowski","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-padres","14":"tag-robert-suarez","15":"tag-san-francisco-giants","16":"tag-sean-hjelle","17":"tag-serious-allegations","18":"tag-shohei-ohtani","19":"tag-the-boston-red-sox","20":"tag-the-giants","21":"tag-tiktok"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114723560267983900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}