Dodgers pitcher Edwin Díaz has been linked to an illegal cockfighting ring in Puerto Rico, according to a report from USA Today.

The outlet detailed multiple social media advertisements from a cockfighting club in Díaz’s native Puerto Rico that featured Diaz’s image, including several wearing a Dodgers jersey, in a report Thursday.

Dodgers star Edwin Diaz, who signed to a $69 million deal this past offseason with Los Angeles, is apparently tied to an illegal cockfighting in Puerto Rico. Carlin Stiehl for CA Post

The story also cited a March 10 news article from the island’s largest newspaper, El Nuevo Día, that “includes a photo showing Diaz standing in the pit of a cockfighting arena,” evidently during an off-day amid this spring’s World Baseball Classic.

While cockfighting is a centuries-old tradition in Puerto Rico, it was banned there when the United States federal government outlawed the practice in all of its territories in 2019.

Puerto Rican politicians initially tried to defy the ban by adopting…