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OTL: More steroid busts coming from MLB

Major League Baseball is expected to announce in the next few days that another player has tested positive for the steroid Turinabol, a drug that was commonly used by East German athletes in the 1970s. The positive test is one of a handful being processed, two sources familiar with the cases told Outside the Lines, meaning it's all but certain that more announcements will follow.

Turinabol, whose chemical compound is dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT), is not something that would likely be found in the tool kit of a modern PED guru. But it is showing up widely again: 2015 NL batting champion Dee Gordon joined the Toronto Blue Jays' Chris Colabello and the Philadelphia Phillies' Daniel Stumpf on the suspended list last week after traces of Turinabol were found in his system.