Papelbon Is Gone For The Rest Of The Season - Accepts 3 Game Suspension From The League For Hitting Machado, Suspended 4 Games By The Team For The Dugout Fight With Harper

Good fucking riddance. Won’t be in the dugout for the rest of the season, and hopefully next year. Now, he is under contract for 11 million for next season. And baseball isn’t like football where you can just cut a guy. But they’ll figure something out. This guy won’t be in a Nats clubhouse ever again.

I was so wrong about Papelbon. I thought he’d be able to come in and be a professional. Thought that getting out of last place Philly and having a shot at another ring would make him a good teammate and act like he is supposed to act. Nope. Tiger won’t change his stripes.

If either Pap or Matt Williams are back next year I’ll be shocked. Rizzo made a huge mistake trading for Papelbon. And Papelbon took a cut in pay from 13 mil to 11 mil to be under contract for next season. They’re going to have to figure this out. Papelbon is a cancer, a hated teammate, and all around bad guy, by all accounts. Get him the fuck out of DC.