Pittsburgh Pirates’ right-handed pitcher Clario Perez has been suspended for 80 games for testing positive for Stanozolol. The 23-year-old was re-signed as a minor league free agent by the Pirates last month. He originally signed with them as an amateur free agent out of the Dominican back in March of 2009. He topped out at Altoona this season, putting up impressive stats at Bradenton during the first half of the year, followed by a 3.89 ERA in 34.2 innings with Altoona to finish the season. Perez sits 93-94, with excellent control and a decent ground ball rate.
Perez is the fourth player in the system who has been suspended since August 2014. Michael Clemens, a 2014 draft pick was suspended last August, followed by DSL infielder Johan De Jesus in September. Back in January, infielder Kevin Ross was suspended for 50 games. Both Ross and Clemens were released before they served their suspension, while De Jesus sat out the entire 2015 season. He spent the year training at the Dominican academy and will be back in 2016.
The FO should be fuming about now and Nutting wants answers.
How does 4 players in two years compare to other systems?
http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20150106&content_id=105663730&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb
What is interesting about this is I looked up the drug to see what it was, and found it has been discontinued, so I am not sure how these guys are getting it. It also looks like 4 MLB players were suspended in 2015 for the same drug and it also appears that it is the easiest drug to find in a drug test. So not are they taking a drug that must be being manufactured in home labs, but they are incredibly even more stupid for taking a drug that is so easy to test for.
Wow! Buccos are juicers! Bucks are juicers!
Winny? That’s big time.
80 games? Second time?
No, they have different levels of games depending on what level you are at and what you got suspended for. A steroid is 80 games for full-season players
De Jesus got 72 games because he was in the DSL. Clemens got 68 because he was in the Appalachian Lg. Ross got 50 because it was a drug of abuse
Thx
Milb players are over paid anyway!
He’s probably losing a lot more money this year than he would have last year
JD YOU ARE ON TOP OF IT!