The Cody Stanley Ban

Cody Stanley tells Ken Rosenthal he is about to be banned from Major League Baseball due to multiple failed drug tests:

Does it make sense that a player suspended for performance-enhancing drugs would use the same substance again while serving his penalty?

Does it make sense that the player would commit a third violation and invite a lifetime ban just weeks before he was due to appeal?

Those are the questions that free-agent catcher Cody Stanley is asking — and he said that his inability to find suitable answers makes him fear for his fellow players.

Stanley, who received a 162-game suspension from Major League Baseball on Friday, said that he expects even worse news soon — a permanent ban for a third positive test for the same residue of the steroid Turinabol that triggered his previous two suspensions.

There are any number of explanations here.

1. Stanley is not telling the truth. He was suspended in the minor leagues for different drugs, but claimed he was not careful with his supplement selection. Maybe he hasn’t learned from his mistake as much as he thought, or maybe he never made the mistake in the first place.
2. NSF approved supplements get contaminated, too. I have no idea how quality is controlled with those products. Do they test samples for every conceivable contaminant? I suspect there is a tolerance level, where say 1 part per million is acceptable. Maybe the new drug test can detect that.
3. The lab is compromised. It happened here. And here. And here.

The players testing positive for Turinabol all seem mystified about the positive. We’ll see what comes of this. Now that Stanley spoke out and broke the confidentiality agreement, MLB is free to release the information that led to the suspension and possible ban.

from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/29vqgNC