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MLB suspends Astros minor leaguers Singleton, Deetz

The league announced today that Astros minor leaguers Jon Singleton and Dean Deetz have been suspended.

For first baseman Singleton, his suspension is for testing positive of a drug of abuse (i.e. a recreational substance), his third such suspension. He will be banned from 100 games without pay.

Deetz, a right-handed reliever who had just been added to the Astros’ 40-man roster, tested positive for the performance enhancing drug dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. Obviously, he ignored the first rule of thumb, which is if a supplement contains thirty letters, you should probably avoid it.