Jenrry Mejia permanently banned after 3rd positive PED test

drbretto

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The first lifetime ban for PEDs under the new system?

Edit: "New" as in I'm old and that era feels like yesterday.
 

Darnell's Son

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Seems like this may have been worth it for him if this is what he needed to make it and stay in the majors. He made $3.599 million in his 3 years and 140 day of service time. That can go a long way in the Dominican.
 

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Seems like this may have been worth it for him if this is what he needed to make it and stay in the majors. He made $3.599 million in his 3 years and 140 day of service time. That can go a long way in the Dominican.
Well he agreed to $2.47 million to avoid arbitration this year so I'd say it wasn't worth it.
 

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Not that anyone cares but I kept him last year over familia thinking he had the inside track to closing in 2015.
 

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Getting permanently suspended for steroids while on suspension for steroids while on suspension for steroids... that's amazing.
 

Oppo

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One of the dumbest decisions of the offseason. What makes oppo think we care about his fantasy team?

If he's mentioned his fantasy team three or more times, he deserves a lifetime ban
At least I have both Trout and Stanton!
 

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Jenrry Mejia Says Baseball Officials Orchestrated His Lifetime Ban
Jenrry Mejia, the Mets pitcher who was permanently barred from baseball after three failed doping tests, claims that he was the victim of a witch hunt by Major League Baseball and that the players’ union did not properly advocate on his behalf.

Baseball’s drug-testing program, which is jointly administered with the players’ union, caught Mejia using anabolic steroids three times. He was penalized twice in 2015, then received the permanent suspension last month.

But Mejia, 26, said in an interview Thursday that he was guilty only of the first doping offense. After the second positive test, which he said was somehow inaccurate, he was pressured by Major League Baseball officials to share information about his doping connections, he said.


Mejia said that baseball officials told him that if he appealed the punishment for the second doping offense, “they will find a way to find a third positive,” Mejia said through an interpreter. “I felt there was a conspiracy against me. I feel that they were trying to find something to bring me down in my career.
Baseball officials denied making any such threats. “No one at M.L.B. or representing M.L.B. has met with Mejia regarding any of these drug violations,” Pat Courtney, a league spokesman, said.


Mejia’s agent, Peter Greenberg, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Baseball’s antidoping protocols allow for Mejia to apply for reinstatement after a year, in 2017. But the minimum penalty is two years, so regardless of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision, Mejia would not be eligible to play again until 2018.

His hopes of reinstatement will probably not be helped by his claims that Major League Baseball fabricated a positive drug test to get him out of the sport.

Mejia also said that he asked the players’ union for help, but representatives told him there were no grounds for an appeal.

“The association should have done more,” Mejia said, adding that he thought the union “should have been there to defend me — because that’s what they’re there for. They should have found something to appeal for.”
 

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Haha. If you want his connection just walk into any Gold's Gym in the DR and find the biggest dude.