Domingo German is not actually retiring

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jon abbey

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The background here if people don't know is that there was some kind of domestic violence incident late last season with German and his girlfriend, and he ended up being suspended for the rest of 2019 and 63 games in 2020. Well, now 2020 only has 60 games so he is suspended for the entire regular season plus three postseason games (the suspension would not carry over to 2021 no matter what). Then today he made a couple of posts, documented here.

https://www.pinstripealley.com/2020/7/17/21329176/yankees-pitcher-domingo-german-i-left-baseball
He turns 28 in a couple of weeks and had a breakout season last year (18-4 with a 4.03 ERA in 143 innings), so it's very surprising, but almost no details about this have been revealed publicly since it initially happened, so who knows what's going on.
 

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The Yankees seem to be as surprised about this as anyone, so I’m guessing there are still some conversations coming at least.
 

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He seems to have deleted the more definitive of his two posts.
 

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Emotional guy, pissed at losing his salary, feeling sorry for himself. He’ll be back next year.
 

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That sounds right. I don't know what he has in the bank, but missing a full year of salary on top of what he lost last year could be hard to deal with.

Too bad. It's his own fault.
 

jon abbey

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It is, but also it has to be frustrating when a half year suspension turns into a full year plus a second postseason.
 

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The Age of Social Media and young men and women sharing crazy shit catches people off guard everyday. Deleting it when you have some semblance of "fame" doesn't help.

Boone seemed as surprised as anyone with the news and did the standard deflection. NY is projected to win the AL East without him. Meh.
 

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We know close to nothing about any part of his personal life, it was all handled very quietly.
 
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