This is what being a baseball fan has become these days....
Fox Sports is reporting that barring a reversal in the appeal process, a major league player will be suspended in the next 48 hours for using performance-enhancing drugs, according to multiple sources.The player is well-known but not a major star and not a member of the Yankees, one source said. Craig Calcaterra of NBCSports.com reported that the player is a National League pitcher.
Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus was the first to report that a suspension was imminent.
Care to speculate?
"Well known but not a major star"....my guess is Vicente Padilla. Gotta be an old guy.
Here's to hoping it isn't any player that anyone owns and depends on....wait a minute, scratch that -- I just hope it isn't any player that I own and depend on!
**UPDATE: OK, it isn't a player anyone was depending on this season, it was injured Edinson Volquez of the Reds...although he is owned in the UPL. Guess the 50-game ding will take place next season.
Someone just pointed out: that is 100 games worth of suspensions in the Volquez-for-Josh Hamilton trade in 2007.
ReplyDeleteCheck that, it was 50 games for Volquez and a 30-day suspension for Hamilton (way back in 2004), although it caused him to not even play for 2 years.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I think that Volquez's suspension starts immediately. So he'll lose 50 games worth of money this year, but he really won't lose any baseball time since he was already injured.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that's a quirk that will get fixed. It doesn't punish the team unless the player is on the 25-man. I believe that when players get suspended for bean balls or fights, teams have to carry the player on their rosters.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious to see what my guy Volquez was taking. I'm hoping that it was fertility drugs like ManRam - nothing more amusing than watching a ball player lactate, which we haven't seen since John Kruk was pushing 280 for the Phillies back in the day.