It's never a fun thing when you hear about yet another baseball player getting suspended due to his attempt at taking a drug to perform better, stronger, and faster than anyone else. Well, it's happened again, but it's happened to an unlikely team: the Atlanta Braves.
The Braves had not one but two minor league pitchers get suspended for 72 games a piece without pay. Their names are Victor Joaquin and Alvaro Silvestre, they are both right handed pitchers and on the roster of the Dominican Summer League Braves.
Joaquin tested positive for a metabolite of Nandrolone, which is an anabolic steriod. The drug has been used to treat anemia caused by kidney failure. Silvestre tested postitive for a metabolite of Boldenone, which is also an anabolic steriod developed mostly for the treatment of horses. So, maybe Silvestre wanted to be as strong as a horse, looks like it didn't go as planned.
Both suspensions will surely diminish their chances of quickly moving up through the ranks of the Braves farm system. This is the first PED suspension of a Braves farmhand in quite sometime. Let's hope it doesn't happen again for quite sometime.