After losing Heliot Ramos and Joey Bart to knee and hand injuries, respectively, the Giants’ rebuilding farm system takes another big hit. Logan Webb, right-handed starting pitcher in Double-A right now and the Giants’ #5 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, has been suspended 80 games for violating the league’s performance enhancing drug policy.
He tested positive for a substance called dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, which I can assure you is not a word I made up just now.
Here is a tweet along with a formal statement from Webb himself:
Webb proclaims his innocence and insists that he doesn’t know how the drug got into his system, and while it seems impossible for an extremely made-up sounding word like dehydrochlormethyltestosterone to get into a person’s body without their knowledge, it’s not implausible.