I’m thinking that a more effective move would have been to dock Dayton Moore’s paycheck for making such a stupid acquisition in the first place.

A fine in the big leagues for a dropped pop-up? Anyone ever heard of something like this?

This sounds totally bush league. What a joke of an organization

just benched him a game or two.

that this is nothing more than a Kangaroo Court fine.

I think Kangaroo Court is a pretty common knowledge thing, but just in case it isn’t…teams regularly have what is called a Kangaroo Court (at least they used to). Usually a few veterans that rarely play are the “Judges, Jury & Executioner”…anyway, there is a set $$ amount for most things a player can do wrong during the course of a game.i.e. $50 for not running hard to 1st on a grounder, $25 for a pitcher walking the batter leading off an inning, $100 for a dropped fly ball…etc…

I think as salaries have exploded over the last couple decades, they have kind of gone away, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if teams still have them, and they are only used for egregious things

Isn’t this kind of the equivalent of fining a guy for striking out? I have a really hard time believing the union doesn’t mind its members getting fined for poor performance.

“Royals Fine SS Yuniesky Betancourt……….” made me spit my coffee. Then I read the rest and realized “fine” was a verb, not an adjective.