Jarred Cosart of the Marlins Being Investigated by MLB on Claims He Gambled on Sports

This is Miami Marlins pitcher Jarred Cosart.

During the 2014 MLB season, Cosart posted:

13-11 Win/Loss Record
3.69 ERA
115 Strikeouts

You probably have never heard of Cosart, but he’s expected to be in the team’s rotation this season. Late last night, though, he became a talking point on Twitter when allegations of gambling emerged, and the pitcher deleted his Twitter account. Two things need to be clear up front: 1) There’s zero proof Cosart bet on baseball, or any sport. 2) MLB players betting on other sports isn’t illegal according to MLB rules.

Nevertheless, MLB is investigating claims based on Tuesday night’s social media kerfuffle, according to the Miami New Times.

Here’s the sordid, messy backstory: At 11:35 PM EST Tuesday night, @ghostfadekillah set the internet on fire by tweeting a screenshot of what appears to be a direct message between Cosart and an unknown recipient discussing gambling on sporting events.

[NOTE: Around 10:30 am Wednesday, Cosart started a new twitter account, saying his “twitter account was accessed by someone else. He denies having bet on baseball.]

Where did this DM screenshot come from?
Is this even real?
Who was Cosart soliciting advice from?
What is the motivation to post this screenshot?
What game was Cosart allegedly betting on?
Why did he delete his Twitter account?

These are questions that cannot be answered yet, and neither can these: Is Cosart being scammed? Did someone hack his account like he has claimed? Is he being extorted?

For example, there is something called ‘Photoshop’ which people can use to create completely false, horrible things — and put them on the internet.

Like So:

No one in their right mind would ever say something as hilariously incorrect and blasphemous as this, but, I created this Photoshop to prove my point that Cosart’s screenshot, the center-of-attention, could have easily been created and Cosart is innocent from this whole ordeal.

Twitter After Dark Quickly was flooded with comments about Cosart, so I reached out to @ghostfadekillah via Twitter. He predicted that Cosart would claim he was hacked or come up with some other excuse, showed me a few more screengrabs, but declined to publicly reveal how he came to be in possession of the DM screengrabs of alleged interactions between Cosart and someone else.