Ladies and gentleman this game that we all know and love
called Major League Baseball is not clean and it likely never will be. No
matter what penalty you associate with a failed test for drugs, alcohol,
steroids or behavior human beings are going to continue being human beings and
I think that fact needs to be remembered when the new collective bargaining
agreement is talked about and presumably agreed upon this winter. This game is
not clean and I don’t believe doubling or even tripling the suspensions again
will make it clean. Keep reading.
Four more minor league players have been suspended this week
for failed drug tests including one member of the Yankees farm system. Jean
Peralta is a pitcher in the Yankees organization and he, Angelo Almonte (Arizona
Diamondbacks) and Jose Pinales (Chicago White Sox) all received 72 game
suspensions while Wally Vrolijk of the Baltimore Orioles received a 50 game
suspension.
Almonte, Peralta and Pinales all tested positive for
metabolites of Stanozolol while Vrolijk tested positive for the stimulant
Methylhexanamine. With these four suspensions, which all come from the
Dominican Summer League just as an FYI, the grand total of minor league
suspensions climbs to 61 while under the Major League program there have been 13
suspensions in 2016.
And those numbers will continue to climb. Why? Because 61
have gotten caught in the minor leagues and only 13 in the Major Leagues and
you can possibly double, triple or quadruple that and get the amount of players
who haven’t been caught and may never get caught. The risk is worth the reward,
look at Alex Rodriguez’s annual salary and lifetime earnings if you disagree
with that.
This game is not clean ladies and gentleman and it never
will be.
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