More Proof Drugs Don’t Make a Hitter Great
As reported on MLB.COM:DETROIT — Tigers infielder Neifi Perez received his second suspension in a month for Major League Baseball’s drug prevention program, this one an 80-game suspension effective Saturday.
The suspension likely ends Perez’s career as a Tiger. He is in the final season of a contract he signed while with the Cubs. The suspension will last into next season.
The discipline means Perez tested positive for stimulants for the third time under the MLB program. He was suspended 25 games on July 6 for his second positive test. He would’ve been eligible to return this weekend.
Stimulants were added to MLB’s testing program last year in an effort to stop player use of such substances as amphetamines, or “greenies.” A first positive test does not trigger a suspension and is kept private, even from the club, but the player can be tested up to six more times without advance notice over the next 12 months.
A fourth positive test would result in a lifetime ban.
Perez is batting .172 (11-for-64) with a home run, three doubles and six RBIs in 33 games, filling in at times for starting shortstop Carlos Guillen.
DAMIAN SAYS: Perez has been one of the worst hitters in the league for many years now. It’s safe to say he’s always been on performance enhancing drugs, since this is his 3rd failed test since official testing has been instituted. The MEDIA likes to attribute Barry Bonds’ career to performance enhancing drugs, but what about Perez’s? His career on-base percentage is .297, and that includes many years in Colorado. Neifi truly has been an automatic out for the last 10 years…
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No question about it — this proves that Neifi would not be a big leaguer without the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
With the stimulants he was taking, I’d be a big leaguer!
Uh, excuse me, Wilford, but I came to a different conclusion. The stimulants did not turn Neifi Perez into a great hitter — he still sucked! This disproves the MEDIA’s theory that Barry Bonds and others are better hitters b/c of PED use.
Can’t we all just admit a couple of things?
1. We look to modern science to enhance our lives and keep us alive longer — why can’t athletes do the same for their performance? What’s this obsession with all-natural athletes? I guess we should ban ANYTHING that might help an athlete perform — like helmets, face masks, and cortisone shots. Anyone with a reconstructed knee, elbow, or shoulder should be banned for life, right?
2. For these athletes, their body is their living. If they’re willing to be supervised by a doctor and be human guinea pigs … to be on the cutting edge, so to speak, what right do we have to tell them no? The hypocrisy on this issue is flat-out stunning. The MEDIA will give Tony LaRussa a free pass for a DUI, even after a player on his team dies while driving intoxicated a few weeks later, but they won’t give Barry Bonds a break. Talk about crazy priorities. It’s the same kind of logic that has municipalities building stadiums instead of fixing bridges with taxpayer’s dollars.