Major League Baseball has announced that Padres' catcher Yasmani Grandal has been suspended for 50 games after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone, which is a violation of Major League Baseball's performance enhancing drug policy. The suspension will begin at the start of the 2013 season.
Grandal is the sixth major leaguer in 2012 to test positive and be suspended for PED use, the most in a season since 2007.
Grandal, a first-round pick of the Reds out of Miami in 2010, becomes one of the most prominent players to be suspended for performance-enhancing drugs. Grandal ranked No. 4 on the Reds' Top 10 Prospects list after the 2011 season. He was traded last offseason to the Padres along with first baseman Yonder Alonso and righthanders Edinson Volquez and Brad Boxberger in a trade that brought righthander Mat Latos to the Reds. Grandal hit .297/.394/.469 in 192 at-bats with San Diego last season.
The Padres issued a team statement regarding Grandal that read: "We were disappointed to learn of the suspension of Yasmani Grandal for violating Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention & Treatment Program. We fully support Major League Baseball's policy and its efforts to eliminate performance enhancing drugs from our game. Per the protocol outlined by Major League Baseball's collective bargaining agreement, we will not comment further on this matter.”
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I know I'm a little late on this, but as a Padres fan I'm still licking my wounds over this. My question is, does this totally put an end to any chance of Grandal becoming the player we Padre fans were hoping for him to become? What I mean is, do you think he could have been taking PEDs his entire time in the Minors and somehow got by the testing or would you think this is a one time thing? Do you know if they test in college, because this kid obviously has talent, I'm just really hoping it hasn't as come from a syringe or bottle.
Posted by Dustin | November 9, 2012 at 10:48 am | Shortcut@Dustin
This is an interesting thought because I'm not sure we've had a suspension yet where a player has Yasmani Grandal's combination of youth and potential.
The closest comp might be the Mariners' Mike Morse, who received a 10-day suspension in September 2005, but at the time he was not regarded as anything like the prospect that Grandal is.
A pitcher-with-upside example would be the Reds' Edinson Volquez, who got busted for 50 games on April 20, 2010.
It will be quite interesting indeed to monitor the performances of Grandal and Melky Cabrera in 2013.
Posted by Matt Eddy | November 9, 2012 at 12:53 pm | ShortcutThank you for answering my question so quickly. I find it kind of ironic that you brought up Volquez, who is now a Padre as well. I hope he is a good comparison, because although he hasn`t become a frontline starter by any means, he is still a good pitcher who it doesn`t seem needs to use PEDs to get his job done.
Posted by Dustin | November 9, 2012 at 1:40 pm | Shortcut