Starling Marte suspended 80 games for Nandrolone

[jon abbey]

Just breaking now...

Ken Rosenthal‏Verified account @Ken_Rosenthal
Major news: Commissioner’s office announces 80-game suspension for #Pirates’ Starling Marte. Tested positive for Nandrolone.

 

[Cesar Crespo]

That hurts.

 

[Wingack]

Apparently he will be ineligible for the postseason should they make it.

 

[jon abbey]

Apparently he will be ineligible for the postseason should they make it.

Yeah, this is the case with any in-season suspension, happened with Abraham Almonte and the Indians last year.

 

[C4CRVT]

I wonder how Cubs and Braves fans feel about those two one-run losses in which he homered?

 

[Brand Name]

Nandrolone is same stuff Clemens was supposedly injected with by McNamee in 2000, isn't/wasn't it? From what I looked up, seems it peaked around the turn of the millenium, although we've had a few somewhat recent MiLB suspensions have popped up with it (Alfredo Zambrano 2010, Derrick Bernard 2014). Medically/legally it's not used much these days but was for those with cancer, AIDS, burns, but also cornea healing, according to Hemmersbasch and Große (2009).

 

[Rusty13]

Nandrolone is same stuff Clemens was supposedly injected with by McNamee in 2000, isn't/wasn't it? From what I looked up, seems it peaked around the turn of the millenium, although we've had a few somewhat recent MiLB suspensions have popped up with it (Alfredo Zambrano 2010, Derrick Bernard 2014). Medically/legally it's not used much these days but was for those with cancer, AIDS, burns, but also cornea healing, according to Hemmersbasch and Große (2009).

Yup. Full blown anabolic steroids. What an idiot.