Showing posts with label PED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PED. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

PED Suspension On the Way?

Last night Will Carroll dropped a little bit of gossip on his Twitter feed, stating simply: "PED suspension incoming".  He followed it up by saying that he didn't know the name or the team, but that he expected a baseball reporter to scoop it shortly.  He then tweeted that the positive test came during spring training, that it wasn't a repeat offender, and that it was not a positive test for amphetamines.

And so we wait.  As TheYankeeU and I tweeted back and forth, we just hope it's not ARod.  It would be typical, though.

Tick tock...

UPDATE, 10:36 AM EST
Craig Calcaterra confirms Carroll's report, and says that it could come "as early as this week".  Calcaterra says:


Baseball Prospectus' Will Carroll tweeted this first yesterday afternoon, and I have since confirmed it with a baseball source: a major league player is going to be suspended for a PED violation, possible as early as this week.
I could not confirm the player's identity, but my source tells me that it's a "semi-big" name, though not a "huge" name.  I imagine that, once the name is revealed, we'll have more fun arguing about what being a "semi-big" player truly means than we will wondering why he was not a bigger name despite taking PEDs.
 I'm hoping we don't have to wait all week. My money is on it getting leaked today. Can MLB really keep a secret that long?

UPDATE, 1:07 PM EST
Craig Calcaterra is reporting that it's an NL pitcher.  The slow drip continues.