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In February 2004, Major League Baseball announced a new drug policy which originally included random, offseason testing and 10-day suspensions for first-time offenders, 30 days for second-time offenders, 60 days for third-time offenders, and one year for fourth-time offenders, all without pay, in an effort to curtail performance-enhancing drug use (PED) in professional baseball.
In a 2010 interview with ESPNDeportes.com in Puerto Rico, Gonzalez said players' legacies will forever be questioned after Jose Canseco wrote in 2005 that he introduced several players to steroids and PEDs and former Sen. George Mitchell produced a report for Major League Baseball in 2007 about the use of banned substances in the game.
The Biogenesis scandal broke in 2013 when several Major League Baseball (MLB) players were accused of obtaining performance-enhancing drugs ("PEDs"), specifically human growth hormone, from the now-defunct rejuvenation clinic Biogenesis of America. [1]
Mejía is the first player in the league to be suspended under MLB’s drug agreement since Fernando Tatís Jr. was suspended 80 games for a violation last fall. Tatís Jr. returned to the lineup ...
Milwaukee Brewers right-hander J.C. Mejía was suspended 162 games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. The 27-year-old Mejía tested ...
Infielder Orelvis Martínez, the Toronto Blue Jays' top position player prospect, has been suspended for 80 games without pay after violating Major League Baseball's performance-enhancing drug policy.
After the BALCO scandal, which involved allegations that top baseball players had used illegal performance-enhancing drugs, Major League Baseball banned steroids. The policy, which was accepted by Major League Baseball players and owners, was issued at the start of the 2005 season and went as follows:
Major League Baseball did not test its players for steroids until 2005, although minor league players were tested earlier, and MLB had been testing for other drugs. Many of the suspensions on this list came from the cocaine scandal that swept baseball during the 1980s, making some suspensions not steroid-related at all.