MLB Announces it Will Investigate Brandon Taubman Incident in Astros Clubhouse

Sports Illustrated reported Monday evening that during the Houston Astros' celebration following their Game 6 ALCS win, assistant general manager Brandon Taubman yelled an inappropriate statement to a group of female reporters. Out of seemingly nowhere, he cursed and praised closer Roberto Osuna, who was previously suspended via the MLB's domestic violence policy, and had also just blown the game before being bailed out.

Rightly so, this was seen as inappropriate and immoral behavior with no justification, other than the desire to act insidiously.

The league won't be brushing this under the rug, as they announced on Tuesday that they are going to investigate the incident.

In their statement, MLB said they'll interview all the people that were involved in said incident. They made it clear that they take domestic violence very seriously and that "everyone in baseball must use care to not engage in any behavior -- whether intentional or not -- that could be construed as minimizing the egregiousness of an act of domestic violence."

Of course, the league can't be thrilled that the Astros' statements on the incident could certainly be seen as claiming it was a fabrication, contradicting several eyewitness accounts.

Among the most confusing parts of this whole thing is that the Astros denied the initial report, but then Taubman and owner Jim Crane came out with statements apologizing (very lightly) for the incident.

Now we're left in a place where we've been told both that these things were never said, and that the men involved are...very sorry anyway. Something doesn't quite add up, and we look forward to the investigation.