Blue Jays pitcher Roberto Osuna to plead not guilty to assault: lawyer
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roberto Osuna intends to plead not guilty to an assault charge, his lawyer said Monday.
The 23-year-old closer was arrested last month in connection with what his lawyer, Domenic Basile, called an alleged domestic incident.
Osuna did not attend the court hearing Monday, but his lawyer said the Crown had turned a “substantive” amount of their evidence over to Osuna’s defence team.
“I spoke to him this morning (and) he loves Toronto, he loves the Toronto Blue Jays and he wants to be back on the mound pitching for them,” Basile told reporters outside court.