Indians, MLB likely knew about Mickey Callaway's behavior: Sources
By The Athletic Staff


Major League Baseball and high-ranking members of the Cleveland Indians — including the team president, general manager and manager — likely knew about former pitching coach Mickey Callaway's lewd behavior before accusations against him surfaced in February, according to records and the accounts of more than 20 sources who spoke to The Athletic.

Sources include current and former Indians employees, people who were around the team regularly and a woman who had an affair with Callaway, as well as the woman's husband.

Cleveland team president Chris Antonetti said he first became aware of the allegations against Callaway after reading The Athletic's Feb. 1 story detailing the accounts of multiple women who said Callaway was "unrelenting" and had aggressively pursued them. Accusations against Callaway, which included sending lewd images and messages to women and requesting nude photos, covered more than five years, multiple cities and three teams — including the Indians, where Callaway coached from 2010 to 2017.

"There had never been any complaints against Mickey in his time with us, either to me or to our human resources department or other leaders," Antonetti said on Feb. 4.

But sources tell The Athletic it would have been difficult for top brass to be unaware of Callaway's actions.

A former employee said that Antonetti, general manager Mike Chernoff and manager Terry Francona spoke with Callaway about his behavior after a man complained to the team that the pitching coach had sent “pornographic material” to his wife. According to a phone call recorded in August 2017 with the wife, a Cleveland lawyer speaking on Callaway's behalf said the team was aware of Callaway's behavior, adding, "The Indians are frickin' pissed as hell at him."

“[Callaway's behavior] was the worst-kept secret in the organization,” one Indians employee said.

Francona declined to respond to questions on Tuesday, saying "right now is just not the right time."

"I do hope at some point, we are able to, because I think we need to," Francona said. "Just know that we take this very, very seriously. I apologize, but that's where it is today.

"Nobody's ever deliberately covered up for anybody, I can tell you that."

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is the other Rosario from the Mets hurt? He has not shown up in box scores yet

He was in yesterday's game.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-vs-i ... ame=642202

Why did they call the game after 7 1/2 ? Indians run out of pitchers? Had to leave early to beat the traffic?

TFIR- Thanks, what I meant to say why not try him in OF since we need so much help there. Jiminez seems comfy at ss and the plate so far.

Games are of interderminate length. Scheduled generally for 7 innings, but if a pitcher has thrown as many pitches as the team wants any inning can end early and the game itself can be cancelled. The goal is reduce the number of players hanging out together in the dugout or on bus.

Looking at the BA Prospect book from 2017 A Rosario was generally ranked among the 10 ten prospects in baseball. He hasn't delivered to that degree for the Mets. If he were a pitcher I'd be confident that the Indians could turn around his career. Since he's not I'd just be happy if they can teach how to play CF and get a fighting chance for that spot.

civ ollilavad wrote:Games are of interderminate length. Scheduled generally for 7 innings, but if a pitcher has thrown as many pitches as the team wants any inning can end early and the game itself can be cancelled. The goal is reduce the number of players hanging out together in the dugout or on bus.

How can you charge people to see a game if those are the rules. Tickets should be free.

Going Saturday. 85 degrees forecasted so a shorter game will NOT be an issue for me.

How much were the tickets, TFIR?

I used to watch many games on the lower fields in WH. They had those make-it-up-as-you-go-along rules. The price was right...free.

Cha, Cha, Cha Chang....2 dingers

5 perfect innings by Civale and Allen

Not a good day for Giminez 0-3... throwing error Who put the KOD on him?

A few guys still hitless for ST. Better get moving.

Chang had a good spring training, or was it the second spring training, last year, too. Unlikely he'll have a chance for anything more than utility and Tito always like to keep Mike Freeman for that job, maybe room for 2 with a 26 man roster, but then there's A Rosario is he doesn't start at SS

seagull wrote:How much were the tickets, TFIR?

I have tickets to 2 games. The lawn area was $15 or so per person. Around double that for my seated tickets this Saturday.

Not bad really - if you get tickets to these games it's ALL spread out - shoot you almost got the place to yourself.

I guess with the Covid limits, tickets are in high demand. Scalpers charging big bucks. You were lucky to grab some.