As a society we tend to minimize first-hand accounts from women while at the same time giving professional athletes/celebrities the benefit of the doubt. I don't trust the police in general, especially not when it's a he-said-she-said situation where one party is a multi million dollar all star athlete, and the other is his girlfriend. That an arrest was not made at the time does not mean domestic violence did not occur. Hey, Greg Hardy's girlfriend never testified in court. You think he didn't do it?
When it comes to teams avoiding Aroldis, it's all about business, not justice. Sports teams are billion-dollar brands, just like Bartells or Starbucks. By trotting this guy out to the mound every night they're endorsing him and his behavior. Maybe he didn't do it, but I'm not willing to risk my business on that. If he thinks that's unfair, he shouldn't have fired a gun 8 times through his garage window into a field (with a 4 month old baby nearby) and had a dozen cops get called out to set a permiter on his house while he hunkered inside. My guess is that some, if not all of the allegations are true. He admitted he got physical, but just “poked his girlfriend on the left shoulder." Mmmmkay.
I have no idea what he did, and he should be allowed to play for any team that will have him. But I don't want him on my team. Sports is about more than winning for me, I want to feel good about who I root for.