Suspensions loom after Rangers-Blue Jays brawl … but how stiff?

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Last time I looked, nobody in Vegas had established betting lines on how long Rougned Odor will be missing in action for that Mike Tyson right cross he unloaded on Jose Bautista on Sunday. But if past precedent is any guide, eight games is the likely over/under on the suspension Odor can expect.

Sources say that Major League Baseball plans to hand down multiple suspensions either late Monday or early Tuesday for the wild bench-clearing free-for-all Sunday in the final meeting of the season between the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays. But how stiff will those suspensions be? Here’s a look at what’s possible:

ROUGNED ODOR (8 GAMES)

Over the last 10 seasons, 10 players have received lengthy suspensions for either inciting or escalating a bench-clearing brawl. More than half of those suspensions were for five games. But there is reason to believe Odor could be headed for a sentence north of five games.

By throwing a punch to Bautista’s face that is destined to go down as one of the signature video moments of 2016, the Texas second baseman is no longer in the category of your average player who started a brawl. He has likely elevated himself into one of those cases that is likely to inspire MLB to make a statement in whatever discipline it hands out.

So what’s the precedent? There have been three cases in the last decade in which players initiating particularly noteworthy brawls received suspensions of either eight or seven games.

In 2013, Carlos Quentin got eight games for charging the mound and breaking Zack Greinke’s collarbone. In 2010, Nyjer Morgan also got an eight-game sentence for starting a major ruckus by going out of his way to collide with St. Louis catcher Bryan Anderson, then making a series of what …

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