| Name | Status with team when arrested | Crime | Term | Notes |
|---|
| Kevin Allen | Free agent | Sexual assault | 15 years[1] | Released after 33 months. |
| Will Allen | Retired | Wire fraud and money laundering | 6 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $16.8 million (along with co-defendant)[2] | |
| Richard Alston | Retired | Conspiracy to distribute drugs | 14 years[3] |
| Josh Bellamy | Cut | Conspiracy to commit wire fraud | 3 years and 1 month, plus payment of $1,246,565 in restitution and $1,246,565 in forfeiture [4] | |
| Michael Bennett | Cut | Wire fraud | 15 months[5] | |
| Burglary, identity theft and attempted theft | 5 years | Was on parole from previous conviction when arrested.[6] |
| Trevone Boykin | Seattle Seahawks | Aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and witness tampering | 3 years[7] | |
| Josh Brent | Dallas Cowboys | Intoxication manslaughter | 180 days and 10 years' probation[8] | |
| Plaxico Burress | New York Giants | Attempted criminal possession of a weapon | 2 years | Conviction was a plea bargain for an incident in which Burress accidentally shot himself in a nightclub.[9] Eligible for parole in April 2011;[10] released June 7, 2011.[11] |
| Billy Cannon | Retired | Counterfeiting | 5 years[12] | Served years. Had been elected to the College Football Hall of Fame before his conviction in 1983, but the Hall rescinded the honor before his scheduled induction. The Hall elected him a second time in 2008 and he was inducted at that time. |
| Rae Carruth | Carolina Panthers | Conspiracy to commit murder | 18 years[13] | Released on October 22, 2018, having served 19 years.[14] |
| Cecil Collins | Miami Dolphins | Burglary | 15 years[15] | Released after serving 13 years[16] |
| Maurice Clarett | Free agent | Armed robbery, possession of a concealed weapon without a permit, failure to maintain current lane | years | Clarett was released to a halfway house after less than four years.[17] |
| Russell Erxleben | Retired | Conspiracy to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, then wire fraud and money laundering | 7 years then years[18] | |
| Michael Floyd | Arizona Cardinals | Extreme DUI | 24 days in jail, 96 days of house arrest, 30 hours of community service and a $5,115.99 fine[19] | Floyd was found unconscious in his car in the middle of a road at 2:48 a.m. with a .217 blood alcohol content.[20] He originally faced seven charges but pleaded to one. |
| Irving Fryar | Retired | Conspiracy and theft by deception (mortgage scam) | 5 years[21] | |
| Dwayne Goodrich | Dallas Cowboys | Criminally negligent homicide | years[22] | Hit and run accident. Released after serving approximately eight years.[23] |
| Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson | Retired | Sexual assault, bribery | 4 years, 8 months | Released after serving 28 months[24] |
| Darryl Henley | Los Angeles Rams | Drug trafficking, attempted conspiracy to commit murder | 42 years[25] | Expected release date: March 28, 2031[26] |
| Aaron Hernandez | New England Patriots | First-degree murder | Life without parole[27] | Committed suicide in prison on April 19, 2017. |
| Travis Henry | Cut | Drug trafficking | years[28] | Served 2 years and 5 months[29] |
| Jimmy Hitchcock | Retired | Fraud, bribery and money laundering | 46 months[30] to be followed by two years of supervised release[31] | |
| Sam Hurd | Chicago Bears | Conspiracy to possess cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute | 15 years[32] | |
| Mark Ingram Sr. | Retired | Money laundering and fraud | 7 years in prison and up to 5 years of probation. Ordered to pay $252,000 in restitution. Given an additional 2 years in prison for jumping bail to see his son Mark Ingram II play for the University of Alabama.[33] | Released 2015 |
| Tank Johnson | Chicago Bears | Probation violation relating to weapons possession | 120 days | Served 60 days[34] |
| Johnny Jolly | Green Bay Packers | Drug possession, evidence tampering, violating probation[35] | 6 years | Served 6 months[36] |
| Tommy Kane | Seattle Seahawks | Manslaughter | 18 years[37] | |
| Ryan Leaf | Retired | Burglary, drug possession | 5 years[38] | AP, January 18, 2013. | Released after serving years.[39] |
| Ray Lewis | Baltimore Ravens | Obstruction of justice | 12 months probation, $250,000 fine | Lewis pled down to obstruction in exchange for his testimony after a bar fight he was involved in left two people dead. Lewis was named Super Bowl MVP the year following his arrest. On April 29, 2004, Lewis reached an out-of-court settlement with four-year-old India Lollar, born months after the death of her father Richard, pre-empting a scheduled civil proceeding. Lewis also reached an undisclosed settlement with Baker's family.[40] |
| Jamal Lewis | Baltimore Ravens | Using a cell phone to facilitate a drug deal | 4 months | [41] |
| Leonard Little | St. Louis Rams | Involuntary manslaughter | 3 months[42] | involved in fatal car crash while intoxicated. |
| Derek Loville | Retired | Racketeering conspiracy | 15 months, $5,000 fine | Loville was charged for his role in a drug trafficking ring, but pleaded guilty only to racketeering.[43] |
| Kevin Mack | Cleveland Browns | Drug use | 6 months | Mack was charged with cocaine trafficking, using a motor vehicle for drug abuse and possessing criminal tools but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.[44] He served only a month at the Ohio State Reformatory.[45] |
| Dexter Manley | Washington Redskins | Drug possession, evidence tampering | 4 years (1996) 2 years (2002) | Served over three years[46] |
| Dave Meggett | Retired | Criminal sexual conduct and burglary | 30 years | Previously convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery[47] |
| Bam Morris | Kansas City Chiefs | Drug trafficking | 30 months | Released after serving two and a half years[48] |
| Mercury Morris | Retired | Drug trafficking | 20 years | Served 3 years. Released early after a plea agreement in which he pleaded no contest to felony drug trafficking charges.[49] |
| Eric Naposki | Cut | First-degree murder | Life in prison without the possibility of parole[50] | |
| Nate Newton | Retired | Drug trafficking | years (two separate convictions)[51] | released after serving about two and a half years[52] |
| Lawrence Phillips | Retired | Assault, separate incident of assault with a deadly weapon (intentionally driving into victims) | 31 years total | Previously sentenced to 10 years on driving charge, which was reduced to seven years during sentencing for assault charge against his girlfriend in 2009[53] In 2016, while awaiting trial regarding the death of his cellmate, Phillips committed suicide in prison after serving 7+ years.[54] |
| Alabama Pitts | Pre-career | Armed robbery | 8–16 years | Pitts was released after six years and played minor league baseball after his release. |
| Joe Prokop | Retired | Tax evasion, fraud | years in prison and years of home confinement[55] | |
| Saleem Rasheed | Retired | Food stamp fraud, immigration fraud | 8 months in prison followed by 8 months of home detention followed by 3 years of supervised release, $500 fine, $5,551 restitution | Rasheed falsely claimed a woman as his wife on immigration forms and collected food stamps despite being ineligible.[56] |
| Two counts of School Employee Engaging in a Sex Act | 3 years | Rasheed was charged with two counts of School Employee Engaging in a Sex Act and two counts of School Employee Engaging in a Deviate Sex Act stemming from consensual sex acts with of-age girls while he was a schoolteacher. He pleaded guilty to the two lesser charges.[57] [58] |
| Robert Rozier | Retired[59] | Multiple murders | Multiple | Convicted of four murders, served 10 years and placed in witness protection after testifying against Yahweh Ben Yahweh, later sentenced to 25 to life on check kiting charge under a Three-strikes law[60] |
| Art Schlichter | Retired | 1997 – forgery, theft | 16 years[61] | committed over 20 felonies related to gambling, released from prison in June 2006[62] |
| 2012 – fraud, theft | 10 years, 7 months[63] | 7 months were related to his probation from an earlier conviction.[64] |
| Darren Sharper | Retired | Rape (multiple counts) | 20 years[65] | Also sentenced in United States Federal Court to 18 years, running concurrently with the 20-year sentence imposed by California, as well as sentences in Arizona, Nevada and Louisiana. While the Federal conviction is shorter, it does not allow for the possibility of parole, giving it a later date of possible release.[66] |
| O. J. Simpson | Retired | Robbery, kidnapping | 9 to 33 years[67] | Released after serving nine years.[68] See also O. J. Simpson robbery case. |
| Anthony Smith | Retired | First-degree murder | Three life sentences without parole[69] | |
| Alonzo Spellman | Cut | Interference with a flight crew, simple assault[70] | 18 months | Served one year |
| C.J. Spillman | Dallas Cowboys | Sexual assault | 5 years[71] | |
| Donté Stallworth | Cleveland Browns | DUI manslaughter (Driving under the influence of alcohol) | 30 days incarceration, 2 years house arrest[72] | |
| Dana Stubblefield | Retired | Rape by force and false imprisonment | 15 years to life[73] | |
| Michael Vick | Atlanta Falcons | Conspiracy, related to dog fighting[74] | 23 months[75] | See also Bad Newz Kennels dog fighting investigation. |
| Nate Webster | Cut | Unlawful sexual conduct with a minor | 12 years[76] | |
| Stanley Wilson Sr. | Retired | Burglary | 22 years | Sentence was under a third strike provision[77] |
| Kellen Winslow II | Retired | Rape (multiple counts) | 14 years[78] | |
| Brandon Browner | Retired | Attempted murder | 8 years[79] | |
| Keith Wright | Cut | Multiple charges, including sexual assault, armed robbery, kidnapping and burglary | 114 years to life, plus 120 years[80] | series of home invasion robberies and assaults | |
| Name | Team when arrested | Jurisdiction | Date | Conviction offense | Sentence | Notes |
|---|
| Retired | Pennsylvania (Cumberland County) | (sentencing) | Aggravated animal cruelty | –23 months imprisonment | Abner had abandoned his 14-year-old dog to die.[166] |
| Kansas City Royals | United States (E.D. Mo.) | (sentencing) | Attempted possession of cocaine | imprisonment, $5,000 fine | Aikens was arrested, charged and sentenced with teammates Willie Wilson and Jerry Martin. They were the first active MLB players ever to be sentenced for drug violations. |
| Retired | United States (W.D. Mo.) | (sentencing) | Drug possession with intent to distribute, gun possession, attempted bribery | imprisonment[167] | Released to a halfway house after serving 14-plus years due to a retroactive change in sentencing guidelines.[168] |
| Washington Senators | Washington, D.C. | (sentencing) | Assault | in a workhouse | Teammate Joe Engel was given only a fine for their assault on a motorman.[169] Ainsmith was subsequently resentenced to a year of probation after paying a $50 fine.[170] |
| Retired | United States (D. Mass.) | (sentencing) | Draft evasion | 3 years imprisonment | Balas failed to report to a conscientious objector camp during World War II.[171] |
| Free agent | United States (E.D. Mo.) | (sentencing) | Possession of cocaine | months imprisonment, $5,000 fine, 2 years probation | Blue was arrested in the same investigation as teammates Willie Mays Aikens, Willie Wilson and Jerry Martin but faced a steeper charge.[172] |
| Philadelphia Phillies | Washington (Spokane County) | (plea) | Indecent exposure involving children[173] | 3 years probation, inpatient mental health treatment[174] | Bouchee was released from The Institute of Living after about three months. Commissioner Ford Frick lifted his suspension the following month after meeting with Bouchee, his doctors and an independent psychiatrist.[175] |
| Cleveland Indians | Ohio (Cuyahoga Falls) | (plea) | Obstructing official business[176] | days imprisonment, $250 fine, 40 hours community service[177] | |
| Retired | California (Los Angeles County) | (sentencing) | Spousal battery, assault with a deadly weapon and making criminal threats | years and 230 days imprisonment, plus 400 hours of community service[178] | Bradley remained free until May 2015 while he appealed his conviction.[179] |
| California | (sentencing) | Domestic battery | days imprisonment, 36 months probation, 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling[180] | |
| Pre-career | Ohio (Crawford County) | | Breaking and entering | "an indeterminate term" in prison[181] | Brown was arrested at 18 years old in 1958. After being scouted at the Ohio State Reformatory by the Detroit Tigers in the fall of 1959, the club helped him get early parole.[182] |
| Tampa Bay Rays | Florida (Charlotte County) | (sentencing) | Two counts of DUI with property damage, DUI with serious bodily injury, leaving the scene of an accident, of driving with a suspended license and two counts of leaving the scene of an accident with damage to the property | months[183] | Released October 2015, after serving years.[184] |
| Retired | Texas (Harris County) | (sentencing) | Cocaine possession | years deferred adjudication for felony cocaine possession in March 2001. Re-sentenced in October 2004 to 180 days imprisonment.[185] | Caminiti violated his probation by testing positive for cocaine. He was released shortly after sentencing because he was given credit for time served and died from a drug overdose a few days later. |
| Retired | United States (S.D. Ga.) | (sentencing) | Conspiracy to steal money from a mental health agency | 3 years imprisonment | Camp, then working as a lobbyist, was convicted alongside Georgia state Representative Robin L. Williams and several others.[186] |
| Free agent | Florida (Miami-Dade County) | (sentencing) | Battery | 1 year probation[187] | Canseco was sentenced in January 1998 for hitting his wife and signed the next month with the Toronto Blue Jays. |
| (sentencing) | Felony aggravated battery, two counts of misdemeanor battery | 3 years probation, 250 hours community service, anger management classes | Canseco and his twin brother, Ozzie, were involved in a nightclub fight in Miami Beach on Halloween 2001 when Canseco was under contract with the Chicago White Sox.[188] |
| Retired | (sentencing) | Violation of probation | 2 years house arrest, 3 years probation | Canseco failed to take court-ordered anger management classes. He had announced his retirement from MLB the year before.[189] |
| United States (S.D. Cal.) | (sentencing) | Drug smuggling | 1 year probation | Canseco tried to bring a fertility drug into the United States from Tijuana.[190] |
| Retired | Florida (Miami-Dade County) | (sentencing) | Felony battery, misdemeanor battery | months probation, 200 hours community service, anger management classes | Canseco and his twin brother Jose were involved in a nightclub fight in Miami Beach on Halloween 2001. |
| (sentencing) | Violation of probation | 1 year imprisonment, 5 years probation | Canseco was arrested on charges of possessing an illegal anabolic steroid, driving with a revoked license and possession of drug paraphernalia.[191] |
| Retired | Ohio (Hamilton County) | (plea) | Assault | imprisonment | Cárdenas was accused of beating his wife's coworker with a baseball bat.[192] |
| Florida Marlins | Pennsylvania (Allegheny County) | (plea) | Indecent assault | 1 year probation | Castro was charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault and unlawful restraint arising from an incident on August 28, 2003.[193] |
| Retired | United States (D.P.R.) | (sentencing) | Drug possession, drug smuggling | 5 years imprisonment, $10,000 fine[194] | Cepeda served 10 months.[195] |
| Banned | Arizona (Santa Cruz County) | (plea) | Driving while intoxicated | days imprisonment | Chase was given the option of paying a $75 fine or going to jail.[196] |
| California (Colusa County) | (plea) | $250 fine, driver's license suspended four months | [197] |
| Philadelphia Phillies | Texas | (sentencing)[198] | Theft | 2 years imprisonment | Chiles served less than 16 months before escaping the Huntsville Prison in Texas on August 19, 1902[199] |
| Colorado Rockies | Arizona (Maricopa County) | (sentencing) | Aggravated assault | 1 year imprisonment, $25,000 donation to a domestic violence charity, 10 public service announcements[200] | After pleading guilty following an incident in which he held a gun to his wife's head, Chouinard was sentenced to 4 increments of 3-month prison terms during MLB's offseasons. He was allowed 42 hours to work out at Coors Field and visit with his family every week.[201] |
| Retired | Virginia (Campbell County) | (plea)[202] | Grand larceny | 4-year suspended prison sentence, 5 years probation, 1,000 hours community service, $15,000 restitution to Jostens. Re-sentenced in 1992 to three years imprisonment. | Two more grand larceny charges were dropped as part of his plea. Clay violated his probation by being arrested three separate times: twice for DUI and once for theft.[203] |
| Virginia (Bedford County) | (plea)[204] | 1 year imprisonment, $1,000 fine | Clay stole $551.76 from his employer.[205] |
| Florida (Manatee County) | (plea) | Twenty-four felony counts including grand theft, fraud and forgery | 15 years probation, $40,000 restitution to American Express, First Union Bank and others.[206] Re-sentenced in 2007 to five years imprisonment.[207] | |
| Florida (Sarasota County) | (conviction) | Grand theft | years, 4 months, 18 days imprisonment | Clay was released in 2012 |
| Detroit Tigers | Michigan (Wayne County) | | Disturbing the peace | $50 fine | Cobb pulled a revolver during an argument at a butcher shop in Detroit.[208] |
| Bridgeport Bluefish | United States (D. Conn.) | (plea) | Conspiring to possess with intent to distribute heroin[209] | months imprisonment[210] | |
| Retired | Pennsylvania (Dauphin County) | (sentenced) | Two counts of second-degree murder | 28–36 years imprisonment[211] | Crane was convicted on September 25, 1929, of the murder of "his former sweetheart"[212] and on March 28, 1930, of the murder of the man accompanying her at the time of the shooting.[213] |
| Retired | United States (N.D. Ohio) | (plea) | Tax fraud | 3 years probation, $85,043 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service | Crowe faced up to three years in federal prison for failing to report more than $300,000 in income from illegal gambling on his federal tax return.[214] |
| Retired | Michigan (Barry County) | (sentencing) | Criminal sexual conduct | 7–15 years imprisonment[215] | Released on September 22, 2020.[216] |
| San Diego Padres | United States (C.D. Cal.) | (plea) | Sexual contact with another without consent | days imprisonment, 1 year probation | Cyr was charged with having sex with a 15-year-old girl on an airplane from Australia to Los Angeles. He was credited for time served.[217] |
| Retired | United States (S.D.N.Y.) | (sentencing) | Conspiracy, uttering a forged instrument, two counts of wire fraud | months imprisonment[218] | |
| United States (S.D. Cal.) | (sentencing) | Investment fraud | months imprisonment | D'Acquisto's second sentence ran concurrently with his first sentence, and he served only 4 years total.[219] |
| Retired | United States (C.D. Cal.) | (sentencing) | 14 counts related to insider trading | months home detention, 2 years probation[220] | |
| Banned | United States (N.D. Ill.) | (plea) | Possessing and selling intoxicating liquor | days imprisonment[221] | |
| Baltimore Orioles | Maryland (Baltimore) | (plea) | Two counts of assault | imprisonment, $250 fine | Donlin claimed to have no memory of assaulting two people while drunk on the street in Baltimore. He was released by the Orioles because of his arrest.[222] Albert Ritchie sentenced him to two concurrent terms of six months.[223] |
| Retired | California (Los Angeles County) | (plea) | Grand theft auto | 3 years imprisonment | Prosecutors dropped 21 other charges against Dykstra as part of his plea deal.[224] |
| (plea) | Assault with a deadly weapon, lewd conduct | months imprisonment, 3 years probation | As a condition of his probation, Dykstra was not allowed to post on social media.[225] |
| United States (C.D. Cal.) | (sentencing) | Bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, money laundering | months imprisonment, 500 hours community service, $200,000 in restitution[226] | Released in June 2013 after serving a total of 13 months (7 while awaiting sentencing, afterwards). Placed on probation for three years and also ordered to complete substance abuse rehab.[227] |
| Retired | California (El Dorado County) | (arrest)[228] | Cultivating marijuana | months house arrest, 5 years probation[229] | Authorities believed a jail sentence would have aggravated his arthritis and leukemia.[230] |
| California | (arrest)[231] | Cultivating and possessing marijuana for sale | months imprisonment | Fain served his sentence at California State Prison, Solano.[232] |
| Atlanta Braves | Georgia (Cobb County) | (arrest) | Driving while intoxicated | (later 21 days imprisonment) | Furcal had 49 days remaining on his Cobb County probation when arrested for drunk driving in violation of his probation.[233] His pleaded guilty to the second charge two days into his prison stint and the two sentences ran concurrently.[234] |
| Georgia (Atlanta) | (plea) | days imprisonment, 10 months probation, 240 hours community service |
| New York Mets | Florida (St. Lucie County) | (arrest) | 1 year probation, 50 hours community service, driver's license suspended six months[235] | Gilkey was arrested for DWI on November 8, 2000, while charges against him for another DWI from less than a month earlier were still pending.[236] |
| Boston Red Sox | Missouri (St. Louis County) | (plea) | 2 years probation |
| Atlanta Braves | (plea) | Driving while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license, speeding | days imprisonment, 5 years probation, 500 hours community service, driver's license suspended five years |
| New York Mets | Florida (Hillsborough County) | (plea) | Battery on a police officer, resisting arrest with violence | 3 years probation, 160 hours community service | Gooden was charged alongside his nephew, Gary Sheffield, and Vance Lovelace.[237] |
| Retired | (sentencing) | Fleeing police, reckless driving, obstruction, battery | days imprisonment, 3 years probation, 100 hours community service, anger management, substance abuse treatment. Re-sentenced in 2006 to a year and a day in prison for violating probation. | Gooden pled guilty to an April 2004 charge that he sped away from a traffic stop and an unrelated March 2005 charge of hitting his girlfriend. He was given 45 days in prison for the latter charge but credited for time served.[238] On April 5, 2006, he was re-sentenced to a year and a day in prison for violating his probation by using cocaine.[239] |
| New Jersey (Monmouth County) | (plea) | Cocaine possession | 1 year probation | Gooden was able to avoid prison time by completing a substance abuse treatment program between his plea and sentencing.[240] |
| Retired | Arizona (Maricopa County) | (sentencing) | Endangerment, DUI | months imprisonment, followed by 3 years supervised probation | Grace had been arrested for DUI twice in 15 months and could have faced up to three years in prison if he had not pleaded guilty.[241] |
| Retired | United States (W.D. Tenn.) | (plea) | Money laundering, conspiring to distribute cocaine | Pending | Hackman was arrested when he arrived to pick up a shipment of 20 pounds of methamphetamine and 4 kilograms of cocaine for which he had paid $96,800.[242] |
| Retired | Texas (Tarrant County) | (sentencing) | 3 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 2 counts of indecency with a child | 45 years imprisonment[243] | Serving his sentence at Coffield prison in Texas. Eligible for parole in 2031.[244] |
| Retired | Louisiana | (arrest) | Negligent homicide | 4 years labor | Released after serving 2 months. Died from a heart attack the day after being released.[245] |
| Retired | United States (C.D. Cal.) | (plea) | Two counts of subscribing to false tax returns | months home detention, $194,701 in fines and restitution[246] | Hiljus served as an agent of an illegal gambling operation. The investigation also resulted in charges against Yasiel Puig.[247] |
| Retired | Missouri | (arrest)[248] | Forgery | 5 years imprisonment | Released in May 1902.[249] |
| Banned | United States (D. Mont.) | (sentencing) | Attempted possession of cocaine | 3 years probation, $1,000 fine and 100 hours community service | While a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Howe was banned from baseball in June 1991 for failing his seventh drug test. Howe was arrested in December for buying two grams of cocaine in a federal drug investigation and pleaded to a lesser charge in April 1992.[250] |
| New York Yankees | New York (New York City) | (sentencing) | Attempting to bring a loaded, unlicensed handgun on an airplane | 3 years probation and 150 hours community service | Howe had previously been reinstated by MLB and was arrested while under contract with the Yankees but his sentence was not handed down until the fall following what would be his final season in 1996.[251] |
| San Diego Padres | United States (S.D. Cal.) | (sentencing) | Drug smuggling | days imprisonment, 5 years probation, $5,025 fine | Hoyt tried to cross the border from Mexico with 500 pills. It was his second arrest for bringing in drugs from Mexico. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.[252] |
| Retired | (sentencing)[253] | Violation of probation, possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute | 1 year imprisonment, 7 months imprisonment to be served concurrently | Hoyt tested positive for cocaine while on probation. Separately, drugs were also discovered in his home. |
| Retired | United States (N.D. Ga.) | (sentencing) | Mail fraud | months imprisonment, $40,000 fine[254] | |
| Retired | Alabama (Mobile County) | (sentencing) | Two counts of first degree assault | 10-year suspended sentence, 5 years probation, restitution | [255] |
| Retired | Florida (Palm Beach County) | (sentencing) | Trafficking in cocaine, sale and distribution of marijuana | 7 years imprisonment | [256] |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | South Korea (Seoul) | (sentencing) | DUI, leaving the scene of an accident | months imprisonment, sentence suspended for two years | Kang had two prior DUIs.[257] |
| Yomiuri Giants | Japan (Tokyo) | (sentencing) | Gambling-related charges | months imprisonment, sentence suspended for four years | Kasahara personally placed ¥4.5 million in bets on baseball games and helped to run a gambling ring.[258] |
| Retired | California (Orange County) | (arrest)[259] | Driving under the influence | imprisonment, 3 years probation. Re-sentenced in 2008 to an additional 180 days imprisonment. | Keough was charged with multiple felonies after leaving the scene of an accident with a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit. Keough violated probation in 2008 by drinking alcohol. |
| (plea) | 1 year imprisonment, 5 years probation | Keough initially showed up to court too drunk for the court to accept his plea and the matter had to be adjourned.[260] |
| Retired | United States (W.D. Wis.) | (sentencing)[261] | Tax evasion | months imprisonment | Released on June 30, 2010.[262] |
| Retired | Ohio | (sentencing) | Second-degree murder | imprisonment[263] | Pardoned on December 24, 1930[264] |
| Pre-career | Michigan | | Armed robbery | 5–15 years imprisonment[265] | LeFlore started playing baseball in prison and was scouted by Detroit Tigers manager Billy Martin at Jackson State Prison. |
| Retired | United States (S.D. Cal.) | (plea) | Possession of cocaine with intent to distribute | 3 years imprisonment, 5 years probation[266] | Loaiza had been facing 10 years to life in prison before he was sentenced[267] |
| Bakersfield Blaze | California (Kern County) | (plea) | False imprisonment with violence | days imprisonment, followed by three years of felony probation[268] | Lueke was charged with rape and non-consensual sodomy but pleaded no contest to a lesser charge. |
| Milwaukee Brewers | Venezuela (Barquisimeto) | (sentencing) | Murder | 12 years imprisonment[269] | Released after serving four years[270] |
| Retired | New York (Cortland County) | (conviction)[271] | Second degree manslaughter | 6–12 years imprisonment | Sentence commuted after three years by the Governor of New York, Herbert H. Lehman.[272] |
| Free agent | United States (E.D. Mo.) | (sentencing) | Attempted possession of cocaine | 3 months imprisonment, $2,500 fine | Martin was arrested, charged and sentenced with teammates Willie Mays Aikens and Willie Wilson. Martin's fine was half those of his teammates because he was near "financial catastrophe." |
| Retired | United States (M.D. Fla.) | (sentencing)[273] | Drug trafficking, extortion, racketeering and conspiracy | 12 years imprisonment | Prior sentence overturned after he served two years, released after plea bargain.[274] |
| United States (E.D. Mich.) | (conviction)[275] | Conspiracy, theft, money laundering and mail fraud | 8 years imprisonment | Released after serving six years |
| Retired | United States (S.D. Cal.) | (plea) | Money laundering | years probation (later sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in absentia) | McLaughlin was also ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution in a related civil matter. After fleeing the country, McLaughlin's penalty was increased to 14 years in prison. He has remained a fugitive from justice since 1991.[276] |
| Saraperos de Saltillo | Mexico (Saltillo) | (sentencing) | Femicide involving the murder of an infant child | 50 years imprisonment, MX$379,500 fine | Mitre was convicted in Mexico for the murder of his then-girlfriend's 22-month old daughter.[277] |
| Retired | Dominican Republic (San Cristóbal) | (sentencing) | Embezzlement | 8 years imprisonment, $1.3 million fine | Mondesí was found guilty of embezzling $6.3 million as the mayor of San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic.[278] |
| Retired | Maryland (Baltimore) | (conviction) | Assaulting a policeman | 1 year imprisonment | One of his co-defendants was found not guilty and the other was only fined $300.[279] |
| Retired | United States (W.D. Tex.) | (plea)[280] | Failure to pay legal child support obligation | 5 years probation, $700,000 restitution in unpaid child support | Neel's child support arrears were the greatest amount in Texas history. He had been living in a resort he owned in Vanuatu in order to avoid his support obligation.[281] |
| Retired | California (Orange County) | (sentencing) | Selling cocaine | days imprisonment, $200 fine, 5 years probation | Odom sold two grams of cocaine to a coworker at a Xerox factory for $100.[282] |
| Retired | Japan (Saitama) | (sentencing) | Murder, theft | imprisonment[283] | |
| Retired | California (Madera County) | (conviction) | Bribery | months imprisonment | Pearson accepted a bribe of $200 while serving as the chief sanitarian of Madera County.[284] |
| Retired | New York (New York City) | (convicted) | Possession of Quaaludes, possession of drug paraphernalia | months imprisonment | Pepitone was sentenced to two concurrent sentences of six months.[285] |
| New York Yankees | Wisconsin (Milwaukee County) | (plea) | Sexual intercourse with a child | days imprisonment, $1,500 fine, $10,000 to the Sexual Assault Treatment Center at Sinai Samaritan Hospital[286] | |
| Retired | United States (C.D. Cal.) | (conviction)[287] | Extortion | months imprisonment | Released after serving months. |
| Texas Rangers | Texas (Collin County)[288] | (conviction) | Burglary of a habitation with intent to commit a felony | 5 years imprisonment | [289] |
| Retired | Florida | (arrest) | Aggravated assault | months probation | Ramos threatened a bar owner with a revolver.[290] |
| (arrest) | Speeding, drunk driving, carrying a concealed weapon, probation violation | 3 years imprisonment | Ramos was released after serving about half of his sentence for his probation violation. |
| Pre-career | U.S. Army | (plea) | Rape, attempted rape, assault | imprisonment, dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Army[291] | Rivera was paroled after five years. His arrival in the major leagues was controversial but Commissioner Ford Frick said that his conduct since his release had been "beyond question" but noted that, if that were to change, the league would "take action."[292] |
| Banned | United States (S.D. Ohio) | (plea) | Tax fraud | months imprisonment followed by one year supervised release, 20 hours community service, $50,000 fine, mental health services, $366,042.86 restitution of unpaid taxes and interest | Rose failed to disclose $345,967.60 in income from card shows, personal appearances and memorabilia sales on his 1985 and 1987 federal tax returns. He was ordered to undergo treatment for a gambling addiction.[293] |
| St. Louis Browns | California | (sentencing) | Murder | imprisonment | Schwamb was sentenced in 1949, but granted parole from San Quentin State Prison in 1960.[294] |
| Retired | Pennsylvania (Lancaster County) | (conviction)[295] | Selling lottery tickets | days imprisonment, $10 fine[296] | |
| Gary Sheffield | Florida Marlins | Florida (Orange County)[297] | (plea) | Reckless driving | months probation, 40 hours community service | Sheffield, who was driving a Ferrari Testarossa 110mph, was also charged with DUI but that charge was dismissed.[298] |
| Retired | United States (N.D. Ohio) | (plea) | Access device fraud, aggravated identity theft | months imprisonment | Smith bought credit card numbers from the dark web and used them to buy at least $10,621.23 in gasoline over a year.[299] |
| Retired | North Carolina (Buncombe County) | [300] | Drug possession | –105 months imprisonment | Released after serving 80 months. |
| San Francisco Giants | United States (S.D.N.Y.) | (plea) | Tax evasion | months home confinement, 3 years probation, 100 hours community service, drug abuse counselling[301] | Strawberry admitted to failing to report $75,000–$120,000 in income between 1986 and 1990.[302] As part of his plea, Strawberry agreed to three months in prison but Judge Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. opted for a lighter sentence. |
| Retired | Florida (Hillsborough County) | (sentencing) | Drug possession, solicitation of prostitution | months imprisonment | Sentence was suspended in 1999, reinstated after 2002 parole violation[303] |
| Retired | New York | (sentencing) | Third degree robbery | 3 years suspended sentence[304] | |
| Texas | (conviction) | Armed robbery | 10 years imprisonment | Served three years[305] |
| Retired | New York (Nassau County) | (conviction)[306] | 5 counts of first-degree sexual abuse | 3 years imprisonment[307] | |
| Philadelphia Phillies | Venezuela (Caracas) | (sentencing) | Attempted murder | 14 years imprisonment[308] | Served years; released December 22, 2012.[309] |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | California (Los Angeles) | (conviction)[310] | Domestic battery | 36 months probation, 30 days community labor, and a 52-week domestic violence counseling course | |
| Pittsburgh Pirates | Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County) | (conviction) | 10 counts of sexual abuse of children, two counts of unlawful contact with a minor, one count each of statutory sexual assault, corruption of a minor and indecent assault of a person under 16 years old | 2–4 years imprisonment, 2 years probation | Vazquez was deported back to his home country of Venezuela after he was released in 2023.[311] |
| Retired | United States (S.D. Fla.) | (plea)[312] | Conspiracy to commit health care fraud | months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, $20,000 fine | Smart Lab LLC, a corporation co-founded by Wayne and his brother, Hawkeye, a former minor league baseball player, also entered a guilty plea.[313] |
| Retired | Arizona (Maricopa County) | (sentencing) | Theft | 4 years imprisonment | While on probation, Wickander pleaded guilty to theft of a computer and other equipment from an office in Phoenix.[314] |
| Retired | United States (N.D. Ill.) | (plea) | Forgery, fleeing from justice | 2 years imprisonment | Wilson robbed a post office in Chicago in December 1907 and was not arrested until May 25, 1908, but escaped from custody while being transported to jail. That August, he robbed a post office in Kansas City.[315] He was arrested in Seattle in May 1909 and sentenced by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.[316] |
| Kansas City Royals | United States (E.D. Mo.) | (sentencing) | Attempted possession of cocaine | months imprisonment, $5,000 fine | Wilson was arrested, charged and sentenced with teammates Willie Mays Aikens and Jerry Martin.[317] | |
