Starting pitcher Luis L. Ortiz #45 of the Cleveland Guardians walks off the field during a game against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on June 15, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. <\/p>\n
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Cleveland Guardians right-hander\u00a0Luis\u00a0Ortiz\u00a0was placed on non-disciplinary paid leave through the end of the All-Star break due to an ongoing investigation, Major League Baseball announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ortiz, 26, had been slated to start against the host Chicago Cubs on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“The Guardians have been notified that\u00a0Luis\u00a0Ortiz\u00a0has been placed on leave per an agreement with the Players Association due to an ongoing league investigation,” the team said in a statement. “The Guardians are not permitted to comment further at this time and will respect the league’s confidential investigative process.”<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u00a0is 4-9 with a 4.36 ERA in 16 starts this season. The native of the Dominican Republic was acquired from the Pittsburgh Pirates as part a three-team trade that included the Toronto Blue Jays on Dec. 10.<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u00a0owns a 16-22 record with a 4.05 ERA in 75 career games (50 starts) with the Pirates (2022-24) and Guardians.<\/p>\n
Left-hander Joey Cantillo (1-0, 3.81 ERA) will get the nod in place of\u00a0Ortiz\u00a0and make his first start of the season on Thursday. Cantillo, 25, has yet to face the Cubs in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting pitcher Luis L. Ortiz #45 of the Cleveland Guardians walks off the field during a game against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,261,1296,7793,4,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-150032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-life","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114791850002880746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150032","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=150032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}