Major League Baseball said Gordon tested positive for exogenous testosterone and clostebol.Though I did not do so knowingly, I have been informed that test results showed I ingested something that contained prohibited substances, Gordon said in a statement released Friday by the players union. The reigning National League batting champion, whose small stature equates to a smaller strike zone, was suspended early Friday for 80 games after testing positive for testosterone and Clostebol, an anabolic agent developed in East Germany during a Cold War explosion of steroid derivatives.
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Through Thursday’s game in Los Angeles, the Marlins’ speedy leadoff hitter was batting.266 with six stolen bases this season. “I love him and we’re going to move forward”. This time being Miami Marlins infielder Dee Gordon.
“It is a huge, huge disappointment to the kids, to our fans, to his teammates and to everyone in our organization who works hard every single day to put a product on the field and off the field that all Miamians can be proud of”.
Gordon tested postive for two performance-enhancing substances banned by Major League Baseball but takes an all-too-familiar stance in the statement, claiming he does not know how those substances got in his system.
Gordon, who in January signed a five-year $50 million contract with the Marlins, denied Friday that he “knowingly” took banned substances – an excuse that ended up more or less working for his team’s hitting coach, Barry Bonds, when Bonds was caught up a decade ago in the BALCO doping scandal. Major League Baseball said Gordon tested positive for exogenous testosterone and clostebol. Last week, Toronto slugger Chris Colabello was penalized 80 games after testing positive for a PED. “People are always going to try and find a way to cheat the system”.
It also follows criticism of the policy by Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander, a former American League MVP and Cy Young award victor, who wondered openly on Twitter – and expanded on his thoughts to Fox Sports – about whether the testing program was working.
“If u test positive u need not to play”, he said on Twitter.
“I don’t think it’s ever going to go away”, Girardi said Friday, before the Yankees opened a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Ranked only behind Jose Altuve on draft boards at second base, he hadn’t been producing to the level most owners expected, making this suspension even harder to swallow. That was Angel Sanchez, the first player suspended under baseball’s drug policy, in 2005. “You shouldn’t be allowed to effect (sic) games while appealing”.
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Colabello was told on March 13 that he had tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, but he was not suspended until April 22, after his appeal was denied. Gordon will now be ineligible to play until July 29, also known as Week 16 to fantasy owners.
