Major League Baseball has been accused of "bullying" in the Biogenesis case by the attorney of a potential key witness.
The attorney for Carlos Acevedo, who along with Tony Bosch and three others was named in a civil suit brought by MLB in March, told ESPN that he has filed a motion to have his client dismissed from the suit.
Acevedo, a former partner with Bosch in a wellness clinic, could presumably be helpful to baseball in supporting and corroborating information presented by Bosch, who has credibility issues.
The two worked together at Biokem, located in the same Coral Gables office that eventually would house Bosch's Biogenesis of America clinic.
"They haven't sat down with me, much less got anywhere near my client, other than sending investigators to his house to bang on the door," attorney Martin Beguiristain said. "And threatening him and intimidating him. It is like they think they are the federal government. No, they went about this all wrong in regards to my client.
"What they have done is made a very strong enemy. Carlos Acevedo is a very strong enemy. He is a broke, broke, broke little nothing individual. But boy, what they have done is extremely impolite. He doesn't have any money. He doesn't have anything to lose. It is not good to bully somebody that has nothing."