Three Dominican Summer League Cardinals players received 50-game suspensions for testing positive for performance-enhancing substances. The suspensions come less than a week after the commissioner’s office handed down identical penalties to a pair of Venezuelan Summer League Pirates.

Lefthander Braulin Beltre, 16, and outfielder Andres Beras, 17, both tested positive for a metabolite of Boldenone, while lefthander Yedilson Pena, 17, tested positive for metabolites of Stanozolol. Beras signed July 2, 2007, the first day of the international signing period, while Beltre and Pena both signed this May. All three hail from the Dominican Republic.