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Monday, May 14, 2012
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Major League Baseball dropped its 100-game suspension of Colorado Rockies catcher Eliezer Alfonzo for a positive drug test because of the same procedural issues that came up in the Ryan Braun case.
Alfonzo is eligible to play immediately, according to a person familiar with the decision who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday night because no announcement had been made.
Mostly a backup during six major league seasons, Alfonzo became the first player suspended twice for performance-enhancing drugs under the MLB testing program when the commissioner’s office announced a 100-game penalty last September.
Alfonzo appealed and was notified within the past week that MLB had lifted the ban. The reason: a dispute over the storage and shipment of his urine sample similar to the one that led to Braun’s 50-game drug penalty getting overturned by an arbitrator in February, the person said.
The person was not familiar with specific details regarding the chain of custody of Alfonzo’s specimen.
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Posted: May 14, 2012 at 05:03 AM | 12 comment(s)
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1. Balkroth Posted: May 14, 2012 at 05:22 AM (#4130892)unlikely since unless mlb is trying to make some stupid point by ending all bans and pointing the finger at braun then each such case should have basic elements that mimic the braun situation where the sample's path was somewhat delayed or re-routed before reaching the end destination.
but i do not discount mlb from trying to make a stupid point
He's not the first. Manny Ramirez was.
The kind where I'm just trying to make a urine joke and people read way, way too much into it.
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