Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Biogenesis update from Yahoo!: Most players will accept their suspensions, names listed.

Yahoo! Sports reports that most of the Biogenesis drug suspensions will be accepted.  A-Rod is still forecast to challenge his suspension, but that one is almost-certainly coming outside the scope of the drug agreement.

Word is that players WILL be additionally suspended "double-digit games" for refusing to comply with the Biogenesis investigation.  This probably makes Braun's 65-game suspension more of a baseline than the standard 50-gamer.

Names in the Yahoo! report include:
  • Detroit's Jhonny Peralta
  • Texas' Nelson Cruz
  • San Diego's Everth Cabrera
  • New York Yankee Francisco Cervelli
  • Jesus Montero (29 games this year in Seattle, demoted to AAA -- was a Yankee in 2011) 
  • Cesar Puello (Mets AA Binghamton, and there was some question as to why he was not promoted.  Biogenesis was not mentioned in a "Mets Official" answering that, but I'd have to think that's in play here.)
  • Fernando Martinez (11 games this year in Houston, traded to the Yankees, now in the AAA Yankees system in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre)
  • Free Agent Jordan Norberto (last pitched in Oakland in 2012, pitched 3 very ineffective outings for AAA Sacramento this year)
  • and Free Agent Fautino De Los Santos (also last pitched in Oakland in 2012, bounced around several farm systems' AAA situations this year)

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