NEW YORK – Suspended Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán says he is not retiring from baseball and apologized for suggesting as much in an Instagram post a night earlier.Germán, serving an 81-game ban for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy last summer, posted Friday night words in Spanish that translated to, “I’ve left baseball.
Thanks everyone."He wrote Saturday in Spanish and English that he was “very sorry for the unsettling post.”“Baseball is my life and I promise I am not walking away,” he said.
Germán has 63 games left to serve and won't play in 2020. The regular season is limited to 60 games this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.The 28-year-old right-hander from the Dominican Republic sent the posts from.