CLEVELAND, Ohio — The bombshell federal indictment against Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz has shocked the baseball world, revealing what cleveland.com Guardians beat reporters Paul Hoynes and Joe Noga are calling the most significant betting scandal since Pete Rose.

“To think that two Cleveland pitchers are involved just kind of blows you away,” Hoynes said on the Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast. “But there’s so many details in this 23 page report from the Eastern District of New York that it’s frightening and it’s sad. And it really casts a shadow over the integrity of the game.”

The charges are staggering in both number and severity. As Noga detailed, “Federal authorities charged both Clase and Ortiz with wire fraud conspiracy, conspiracy to influence sports contests by bribery and mone

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