Dodgers’ Polarizing Former All-Star Breaks Silence After Joining Toronto Club

“Turns out Yasiel Puig can still smash a baseball,” Amber Harding wrote for Fox News. “The former MLB All-Star made his debut Sunday for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Canadian Baseball League (CBL). And he looked an awful lot like the electric version of Puig that baseball fans remember from his Dodgers days.”

Puig went two-for-two with two home runs, four RBI and two walks in a win for his new team, reminding some Dodgers fans of the bat he swung during his 2014 All-Star campaign with the team. But it would be an understatement to say that Puig is far from the same outfielder he was more than a decade ago, particularly as he faces sentencing in Los Angeles following a recent guilty verdict.

“Three months ago, Puig was found guilty of obstruction of justice and providing false statements related to a January 2022 interview with investigators looking into the gambling ring,” Dan Robson reported for The Athletic. “He faces up to 15 years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 26 in California.”

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With that sentencing looming, it’s unclear how long Puig might be able to stay with his new team. But, following an impressive debut in Toronto, he broke his silence about the looming court date.

“I don’t have plans, God made the plan for me, I don’t know,” Puig told Robson. “I need to go to Los Angeles and later come back, only God knows what will happen…”

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