Jose Reyes accepts unpaid suspension by MLB

Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes has reportedly accepted an unpaid suspension by Major League Baseball that will keep him out through May 31st.

According to Fox Sports’ Jon Morosi, Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes has accepted an “unpaid suspension from [Major League Baseball] through May 31, covering what had been paid administrative leave since spring training.”

This punishment levied out by Major League Baseball stems from a domestic violence issue between Reyes and his wife Katherine back in October while they were in Hawaii. Reyes was arrested on October 31st in Maui for the incident.

Morosi’s colleague at Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal who had been closely following the Reyes story and the impending punishment Tweeted out Reyes’ official statement on Friday afternoon.

From Reyes’ statement, it seems that he wants to put this whole embarrassing incident behind him and play some baseball for a respectable Rockies team that has gone 16-18 in his extended absence, only 1.5 games back of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants who are in a first-place tie.

Reyes was the primary big league piece that come over to Colorado in the Troy Tulowitzki trade with the Toronto Blue Jays last trade deadline. Tulowitzki helped get the Blue Jays’ offensive juggernaut to their first American League Postseason since 1993, making it all the way to the 2015 American League Championship Series where the Blue Jays lost to the eventual 2015 World Series Champion Kansas City Royals.

Will Reyes’ eventual return to the Rockies be a big enough boost for Colorado to hang with Los Angeles and San Francisco in the National League West going forward or is he on the decline as a big league player? Either way, Reyes won’t be able to suit up for Walt Weiss’ club until June 1st once he serves his unpaid suspension levied out by Major League Baseball.

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