Athletics farmhands David Mota and Wilfredo Sosa both hail from the Dominican Republic and both missed the entire 2010 season with injury. Now they have something else in common.

Mota and Sosa will serve 25-game suspensions at the commencement of the short-season New York-Penn League season. (They had tentatively been assigned to the organization's new Vermont affiliate.) The commissioner's office announced the penalties in a press release Friday, stating only that the two players had violated the game's drug program, without elaborating further.

The 24-year-old Mota, a righthander, appeared in six games for the Rookie-level Arizona League A's in ’09, notching a 6.14 ERA and 11-to-7 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 7 1/3 innings. He hails from El Seibo.

Sosa played third base (22 games) and shortstop (12) for short-season Vancouver in ’09. The 22-year-old, a native of San Pedro de Macoris, batted .213/.289/.326 with two homers and 10 doubles in 41 games.