Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Edgar Santana was suspended 80 video games without pay by Major League Baseball on Sunday after testing favorable for a prohibited compound.
MLB said in a declaration that Santana, 28, was favorable for Boldenone, a performance enhancer.
Santana, a right-handed reducer, missed the 2019 season since of Tommy John surgical treatment.
In 2018, he appeared in 69 video games for the Pirates, going 3-4 with a 3.31 ERA. He struck out 74 in 66 1/3 innings that season.
” The Pirates are dissatisfied to find out of todays news that Edgar Santana has actually gotten an 80-game suspension as an outcome of a violation of Major League Baseballs Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program,” Pirates GM Ben Cherington stated in a declaration. “Because of the privacy requirements of the Program, we will not have additional discuss this matter.”