MLB suspending Miguel Tejada 105 games for positive amphetamine tests
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Miguel Tejada再度被檢驗出使用安非他命(苯丙胺)，將被禁賽105場─不算終身禁賽的
話，105場是目前第三長的禁賽場次。
目前在60天傷兵名單的Tejada不打算上訴。
Kansas City Royals infielder Miguel Tejada will receive a 105-game suspension
after twice testing positive for Adderall, a penalty that could end the
career of the 39-year-old former American League MVP, sources told Yahoo!
Sports.
Because Tejada had previously tested positive under the league’s amphetamine
policy, he was subject to a 25-game ban for a second positive, which was
found in a test this season. A third positive, in close proximity to the
second, called for an additional 80-game suspension, totaling a concurrent
105.
It will be the third-longest non-lifetime suspension ever levied by MLB,
behind the Alex Rodriguez’s pending 211-game ban and Steve Howe’s 119-day
sanction in 1992. Major League Baseball could announce Tejada’s discipline
as soon as Saturday afternoon.
Widespread amphetamine use throughout baseball led to a crackdown in 2006,
though the drugs remain prevalent in clubhouses through therapeutic-use
exemptions granted by MLB’s medical staff. Last season, the league gave 116
TUEs for players diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, allowing them to
use drugs prescribed to treat ADD without repercussions.
Tejada did not appeal the penalties and will begin serving them immediately
from the 60-day disabled list, where the Royals placed him this week with a
strained calf. After serving the remaining 41 games in Kansas City’s season,
Tejada would be ineligible to play in the first 64 games of 2014, though one
source close to Tejada indicated he is strongly leaning toward retiring.
It would end an up-and-down career that peaked with the 2002 AL MVP and saw
its nadir when he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2005 about his
knowledge of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Though Tejada never was
suspended for PED use, he later admitted to buying more than $6,000 worth of
human growth hormone, which he claimed to have thrown away before injecting.
By then, he had parlayed his success in Oakland into a $72 million contract
with the Baltimore Orioles, who after four years traded him to Houston. In
2008, his first season with the Astros, Tejada admitted he had falsified his
age before signing with Oakland by two years, and he was actually 34, not 32.
After bouncing around among four teams from 2009-11 and spending 2012 in
Triple-A, Tejada looked better than he had in years playing for Aguilas of
the Dominican Winter League. After starting at third base for the World
Baseball Classic-winning Dominican team, Tejada made the Royals as a
utilityman and resurrected his career as the team’s everyday second baseman
before the injury sidelined him.
The only other player to receive an 80-game suspension for amphetamines was
utilityman Neifi Perez, who, like Tejada, tested positive twice within a
month during the 2007 season.Were Tejada to continue playing and test
positive a fourth time, he would receive a lifetime ban.