Major League Baseball has made significant strides in its crusade to increase performance-enhancing drug testing and punishment in recent years.
But as we’ve been reminded several times this season, the issue is far from resolved.
Chris Colabello of the Toronto Blue Jays and the Miami Marlins’ Dee Gordon — one of the slimmer, speedier players in the league — were both slapped with suspensions for failed drug tests that revealed performance-enhancing drugs this season.
Then Indians outfielder Marlon Byrd was suspended 162 games by MLB on Wednesday for failing a drug test in May. It’s the second suspension in Byrd’s career, and it’s probably a career-ender, as he told teammates when he addressed them in the clubhouse.