Blue Jays’ 5-Time All-Star Breaks Silence On Sexual Misconduct Accusation Amid NDA

2026-04-02 · Yahoo Sports

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The Toronto Blue Jays announced themselves as American League frontrunners with a run all the way to the World Series last year, then an infusion of new talent during the offseason.

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Now the team is focused on returning to the Fall Classic as it navigates another marathon season and a highly competitive division.

But even as the contemporary Blue Jays roster has established a forward-looking narrative, there is some new reason for fans to look backwards.

Toronto Blue Jays Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar Offers Response To Baseball Ban

After receiving a lifetime ban for alleged sexual misconduct in 2021, long-time Blue Jays infielder Roberto Alomar has spoken out in detail about the allegations, his life since the punishment and more in a new interview.

“I’m going to be a Blue Jay for life,” Alomar told the Toronto Sun’s Steve Simmons in an interview released on Thursday. “That’s how I feel. I don’t care what they say about what happened. To me it’s not the fans saying it. People seem to love me in Toronto. Sometimes they ask me ‘Roberto what happened? We don’t know.’ There’s no story out there. People don’t know why I got suspended.”

Alomar was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame following his 17-year major-league career, which included five All-Star nods, five Gold Glove Awards and two World Series championships in a five-year span with the Blue Jays.

In 2021, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced that Alomar had violated MLB policies after a woman came forward with accusations of sexual misconduct stemming from 2014. Manfred indicated that an external law firm had conducted an independent investigation, and that MLB had reviewed the results before making its decision to ban Alomar and terminate a consultant contract that he held at the time.

“He had been working as a consultant for Major League Baseball and ambassador for the Toronto Blue Jays, whom he led to world championships in 1992 and 1993,” Dan Schlossberg reported for Forbes in 2021. “The Jays said they were cutting all ties with the 12-time All-Star, whose name will be stricken from the team’s Level of Excellence at Rogers Centre, where the banner featuring his retired No. 12 will also be removed.”

Toronto Blue Jays Legend Roberto Alomar Accuses MLB Of Forcing Him To Sign NDA

But in his interview with Simmons, Alomar defended his innocence, insisting he was not guilty, noting that he has not seen any evidence following the accusations and adding that he was “bullied” into signing an agreement to match MLB’s $500,000 payment to the female complainant.

“My lawyer told me, if you go to court (against this woman), it could wind up costing you $2-3 million in legal fees just to fight this and this could last 10 years,” Alomar told Simmons. “I couldn’t do that. I couldn’t afford to do that. I didn’t have that kind of money. I don’t have that kind of money.”

Alomar also said he was essentially forced into signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which has kept him from speaking out about the fallout from the accusations up to this point. Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro pointed to his own NDA when declining to comment for Simmons’ report, and Manfred never responded to a request for comment, per Simmons.

But despite the NDA he said he was forced to sign, Alomar spoke directly about the accusations that turned a Hall of Fame career into a ban and a soured relationship with the Blue Jays.

“All I know is I never did whatever they say I did with this girl. I knew her,” Alomar told Simmons. “I saw her for 10 minutes (that night). She went to bed. That was it.”

This article was originally published on Forbes.com

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