Even though Major League Baseball has made great strides over the last decade to build a drug policy that is fair and carries weight for those players that fail a test, there have been some cracks in the procedure.
Speaking to Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com, Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander posited a question about certain suspensions that have been handed out: "Every time a guy gets popped who didn't test positive, it's kind of like, 'Why are we even going through this?'"
The specific example Rosenthal cited is the 80-game ban handed out to free-agent catcher Taylor Teagarden, after he admitted to taking a performance-enhancing substance in the Al Jazeera America documentary that was released in December.