Nationals Players Slapped With Suspensions

Posted Feb. 9, 2011 1:30 pm by Matt Eddy
Filed under: Suspensions

Major League Baseball announced yesterday that Nationals minor league catcher Hector Taveras has been issued a 25-game suspension. An MLB press release states only that he violated the minor league drug program.

Signed out of the Dominican Republic last March, Taveras batted .300/.361/.369 in 130 at-bats during the 2010 season, which the 21-year-old spent mostly in the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League.

Washington also will begin the year without access to catcher Adrian Nieto, a 2008 fifth-rounder who batted just .195/.291/.253 in 174 at-bats for low Class A Hagerstown last season. His suspension will run for 50 games, MLB announced last Thursday. Nieto tested positive for Oxandrolone and metabolite, a performance-enhancing substance.

In recent Nationals suspension news . . .

• Last July, outfielder J.R. Higley and third baseman Steven Souza received 50-game suspensions

• In May, they lost second baseman Seth Bynum for 50 games

• At the end of 2009, righthander Stephen Englund and third baseman Stephen King got hit with 50-game bans
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Metabolites are not "performancing enhancing substances."  Metabolites are the by-products of metabolization.  This may help to clarify:
http://bizofbaseball.com/index.....;Itemid=39

 Posted by ecp | February 9, 2011 at 2:18 pm | Shortcut

another good reason to dismiss good college players with great makeup

 Posted by Mark Mac | February 9, 2011 at 8:29 pm | Shortcut

Of that list of guys, only Seth Bynum was a college draftee, so I'm not sure as to your point about "good college players with great makeup."  And that was so long ago that he was actually drafted by the Expos.  Hector Taveras was an international signing.  The rest all came out of high school.

 Posted by ecp | February 10, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Shortcut

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