AP: Major League Baseball players, owners reach drug agreement; suspensions rescinded

Baseball players and owners agreed Friday to more frequent drug testing and increased—but not total—authority for the program’s outside administrator.

All players implicated in December’s Mitchell Report on peformance-enhancing drugs were given amnesty as part of the agreement, which toughens baseball’s drug rules for the third time since the program began in 2002. Thus, the deal eliminated 15-day suspensions assessed against Jose Guillen and Jay Gibbons.
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In the deal, the sides agreed:
— annual tests will rise by 600 to 3,600.
— as many as 375 offseason tests can be conducted over the next three years, up from the current limit of 60 per offseason.
— testing will include the top 200 prospects for each year’s annual draft.
— the IPA will issue an annual report detailing what substances resulted in positive tests, the number of tests given and therapeutic use exemptions by category of ailment.
— additional substances were added to the banned list, among them: insulin-like growth factor, gonadotropins, aromatase inhibitors, selective estrogen receptor modulators, and clomid and other antiestrogens.
— an automatic stay for an initial suspension will be expanded to players disciplined for conduct unrelated to a positive test.