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Michael Chavis Receives 80-Game Suspension

By Jeff Todd | April 6, 2018 at 4:49pm CDT

Top Red Sox prospect Michael Chavis, a third baseman, has been hit with an eighty-game suspension by Major League Baseball. Per a league announcement, he tested positive for a prohibited performance-enhancing substance, dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.

The 22-year-old, who was taken 26th overall in the 2014 draft, turned in a breakout effort in 2017. Chavis entered the present season with consensus top-100 prospect status leaguewide.

It had been hoped that Chavis would continue to develop in the upper minors this year, perhaps even becoming an MLB option later in the summer or early in 2019. Now, though, he’ll miss about half of the coming season while serving his sentence.

After a few tough seasons, Chavis laid waste to the High-A level last year (.318/.388/.641) before turning in a productive second half at Double-A and then doing the same in the Arizona Fall League. While he’s not considered a standout defender, Chavis seems to have settled in as a palatable gloveman at third.

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  1. lilpartialbaldo

    5 years ago

    Goodnight sweet prince.

    Reply
  2. jrwhite21

    5 years ago

    Stupid stupid stupid

    Reply
    • DimitriInLA

      5 years ago

      Those numbers don’t look nearly as good.

      Reply
  3. a1544

    5 years ago

    That’s a mouthful

    Reply
    • JoeyPankake

      5 years ago

      That’s what she said

      Reply
  4. Dwalt

    5 years ago

    That’s a real bummer man.

    Reply
  5. lilpartialbaldo

    5 years ago

    At least he’s still young enough to do something else with his life. See ya!

    Reply
  6. mike156

    5 years ago

    It’s never a good thing to have a very long word ending in “testosterone” associated with the phrase “tested positive”
    You do wonder what these guys are thinking.

    Reply
    • Priggs89

      5 years ago

      They’re thinking they want to make a ton of money and aren’t good enough to do it without assistance. It’s all about the Benjamin’s.

      Reply
      • brucewayne

        5 years ago

        Testosterone will not help you be a better ball player ! It has to do with the male sex drive

        Reply
        • bklynny67

          5 years ago

          False. If that’s all it helped, it wouldn’t be illegal for players to use.

        • brucewayne

          5 years ago

          and it also turns fat into muscle

        • brucewayne

          5 years ago

          and build bone mass. Mainly used to build muscle

        • brucewayne

          5 years ago

          and workout recovery!

        • johnsilver

          5 years ago

          Kid is a walking hulk anyway and has been since he was drafted. he’s short and really stacked. Been nagged by various injuries except for last season and now this..

          Nice kid also. Talked with him when 1st was drafted and assigned to ft myers. Very driven individual to succeed.

        • Priggs89

          5 years ago

          So it does a lot of things to help you be a better ballplayer. Got it. Thanks.

        • dombrowski

          5 years ago

          Haha! Bone mass.

        • kiwimlbfan

          5 years ago

          Nothing turns fat into muscle.

    • MilTown8888

      5 years ago

      Nobody ever told you about dht?

      Reply
      • trident

        5 years ago

        You down with DHT? (Yeah, you know me!)

        Reply
  7. papa fraunch

    5 years ago

    Dumbass

    Reply
  8. deweybelongsinthehall

    5 years ago

    As a Red Sox fan, I’m saddened. Like in all cases, we should wait to make judgment. Most however are not defensible and overall it is not surprising that athletes will look to eat that apple given the dollars and glory that tempt from the tree.

    Reply
    • justin-turner overdrive

      5 years ago

      You should never be sad over any prospect doing anything except dying.

      Reply
      • deweybelongsinthehall

        5 years ago

        Technically true. Sad over the situation today. Obviously, players make choices over what they put into their bodies when others simply do not have that luxury. That said you can be sad over different situations. Why compare? Reminds me of a white collar criminal criminal being compared to a murderer. They’re both felons. No need to compare.

        Reply
    • jrwhite21

      5 years ago

      As a fellow Red Sox fan, I’m disappointed and I question his breakout season last year

      Reply
      • Priggs89

        5 years ago

        What’s there to question? Do you really think he just decided to start juicing after his “breakout season”?

        Reply
    • fox471

      5 years ago

      Wait to make judgment? He took it and he got caught.

      Reply
  9. Blegh

    5 years ago

    “i never intentionally took the drug in my life”

    Reply
    • badco44

      5 years ago

      Ryan Braun #2

      Reply
    • dugdog83

      5 years ago

      The guy at Subway put it in my sweet onion chicken teriyaki

      Reply
  10. KYRedSox17

    5 years ago

    See ya? Dee Gordon’s career seems to be going just fine after his suspension.

    Reply
    • deweybelongsinthehall

      5 years ago

      Melky Cabrera is another. To me, do a full investigation but then a multi year suspension of not life. Otherwise the money is so great that there really are no deterrents.

      Reply
      • NYY42

        5 years ago

        Papi is another
        Pettitte is another

        Reply
  11. Fg-3

    5 years ago

    It must have been the Mexican meat..
    dumb ass

    Reply
  12. afsooner02

    5 years ago

    Cheater

    Reply
  13. agentp

    5 years ago

    Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.

    Say that three times fast.

    Reply
    • WazBazbo

      5 years ago

      That that that.

      Reply
  14. agentp

    5 years ago

    Obligatory Papi Shake reference. Keep the legend away from the prospect because those milkshakes are suspect.

    Reply
    • cjw0015

      5 years ago

      what did Papi test positive of?

      Reply
    • yukongold

      5 years ago

      But Arod was brought on to help teh kidz.

      Reply
  15. justin-turner overdrive

    5 years ago

    “After being bad his entire career, he suddenly was good. How did he do it? Oh.”

    Reply
    • 22222pete

      5 years ago

      Breaking out at age 21. Unheard of

      Reply
      • justin-turner overdrive

        5 years ago

        The perfect time to start juicing to save your weak skillset, I think that’s when Canseco started IIRC

        Reply
  16. bosox2004

    5 years ago

    What an idiot

    Reply
  17. pjmcnu

    5 years ago

    Hmmm, guess we know why he went from having “tough seasons” to “laying waste” to High A.

    Reply
  18. 22222pete

    5 years ago

    A lot of these suspensions are due to supplements. Minor leaguers cant afford the certified supplements in US. Not at 5-10K per year salary. Those Latin American players probably buying the stuff in their home country.

    Even certified product carries the risk of contamination since manufacturers cant control all aspects of the supply line

    Players are not dumb enough to knowingly take these drugs that are easily detected. They may roll the dice on supplements out of economic necessity.

    Being suspended without pay is tough, but he can make more at McDonalds now and may afford better supplements. Thats Sad

    Reply
    • yukongold

      5 years ago

      Chavis signed for 1.89M. He can afford supplements.

      Reply
    • JDGoat

      5 years ago

      No mention that maybe he took them on purpose? You can’t just assume it’s because he took a bad supplement accidentally

      Reply
      • Priggs89

        5 years ago

        Not to mention that he probably doesn’t NEED to take supplements.

        Reply
  19. hozie007

    5 years ago

    I support a 100% no tolerence policy….you test positive you are out of baseball. There are hundreds of guys who don’t cheat that don’t make it because of cheaters like this one.

    Reply
    • 22222pete

      5 years ago

      So you are saying there are hundreds of players in MLB today who cheated and blocking the non cheaters?

      Reply
  20. julyn82001

    5 years ago

    McGuire, Bond, Canseco, etc, you name it!

    Reply
  21. jmc70

    5 years ago

    He must have Ortiz and Ramirez as mentors…

    Reply
    • deweybelongsinthehall

      5 years ago

      Sad but every team had PED users and probably still do. Undetection enhancers will be detected tomorrow while certain players get rich in the meantime. As another already said it, those cheating are hurting other athletes. Basically taking money that would have gone to someone else. Fraud. Make them give back their earnings to a fund for those t b.c. at don’t make it and later develop medical issues.

      Reply
  22. berteuthis

    5 years ago

    Using supplements doesn’t hold up as an excuse. If you’re foolish enough to take without a confirmed ok from MLB, who’s at fault?

    Reply
  23. formerdraftpick

    5 years ago

    Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone is 874 points in Scrabble.

    Reply
  24. whosyourmomma

    5 years ago

    Why has there been a significant percentage of PED suspensions in the minors lately? Mlb making exceptions to big leaguers or do players have too much help to not come up positive? You can’t seriously believe only a couple guys in bigs are on some form of PED.

    Reply
    • davidcoonce74

      5 years ago

      The MLB tests players 3 times per year, even more for anyone with a previous positive..( Minor league tests for marijuana, which is preposterous (because weed is legal in like 20 states now) So yes, minor league drug tests are more likely to come up positive.

      Reply
      • justin-turner overdrive

        5 years ago

        MLB not testing for weed but MiLB does is a thing all players should strike over. It’s the same as booze now, get over this propaganda-fueled hatred over what is a miracle cure for many.

        Reply
  25. BoSoxWin

    5 years ago

    Maybe he has low T…no wait a minute, he must have a low I.Q! The fact that these kids think they can beat the system tells me that PEDs are still running wild in MLB and it’s minor league affiliates. Someone is telling these idiots what to take and how they beat the tests.

    Chavis was a HUGE disappointment as a #1 draft pick until last season. We were hoping that he had matured into his talent; sounds like he manufactured it instead. Now the real test begins when he gets back from these 80 games. No way he’ll cheat again with all of the follow up testing they do with known cheaters, so if he reverts back to the low .200’s with less than 10 HRs, we have our answer about last year’s ‘breakout’ season.

    It’s really too bad as Chavis loves baseball and appeared to be a very nice kid…maybe he’s just a good actor like all of the others in whose footsteps he has followed.

    Reply
    • Phil253

      5 years ago

      If he loved baseball he wouldn’t cheat. #mikedrop

      Reply
      • Priggs89

        5 years ago

        Why are you dropping Mike? What did he do to you?

        Reply
      • liamsfg

        5 years ago

        Did you tell Mike that it was you and not him?

        Even though it was probably him.

        Reply
  26. Lary Lapczynski

    5 years ago

    As a rule, nothing good from taking anything that needs 30 letters to spell….

    Reply

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