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Pirates’ Pablo Reyes Suspended 80 Games For PED Violation

By Steve Adams | February 19, 2020 at 4:07pm CDT

Pirates infielder/outfielder Pablo Reyes has been suspended 80 games after testing positive for the banned substance Boldenone, Major League Baseball announced on Wednesday. Reyes was designated for assignment by the Pirates and sent outright to Triple-A Indianapolis last month.

Reyes, 26, has seen action with the Pirates in each of the past two seasons but struggled in 2019 after an intriguing debut in 2018. Overall, he’s mustered only a .229/.295/.368 slash in 220 plate appearances as a big leaguer. That said, Reyes also carries a solid .281/.341/.471 line through 589 plate appearances in his Triple-A career. Today’s PED revelation and last year’s league-wide offensive explosion in Triple-A will cause many to question the legitimacy of that production, however. Reyes missed about a month of the 2019 season due to an ankle injury.

Having been outrighted off the roster, Reyes was already facing an uphill battle to make it back to the big leagues. Now, with a half-season suspension for a performance-enhancing substance, his road to a second tour of duty in the Majors is all the longer.

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  1. 8ManLineupNoPitcherNoDH

    11 months ago

    What a loser. Pa-BLOW sounds about right.

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    • dynamite drop in monty

      11 months ago

      Why? Because he used a substance that’s arbitrarily on some list some stuffy antiquated yes men in the league office basement made up? A substance that may well not be “banned” after the new CBA?

      Ok

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      • cmanson

        11 months ago

        arbitrarily ?

        Its a ped to build mass, not to remedy an injury…he knew exactly what he was doing when he put it in his body.

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        • DrLava

          11 months ago

          actually its used to better retain nitrogen which lets you keep mass as oppose to build mass.

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      • amcferron85

        11 months ago

        @monty All I ever see you do on this site is stir the pot with your “wokeness.”

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        • dynamite drop in monty

          11 months ago

          I’m sorry, I thought you’d have noticed my unyielding 80s movie quotes as well.

          9 Like
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        • retire21

          11 months ago

          The aforementioned quotes are indeed sublime.

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        • gozurman1

          11 months ago

          I thought that I was the only one who used old movie quotes here….. Well raise my rent!

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        • stevewpants

          11 months ago

          And the Seinfeld quotes!

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        • stevewpants

          11 months ago

          @amcferron lmao if you think Monty is too woke I really would not recommend venturing much further onto this newfangled World Wide Web thing all the kids are so keen on these days.

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        • earmbrister

          11 months ago

          steviepants – I’m in total agreement with ya

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      • clrrogers

        11 months ago

        Boldenone is a steroid meant for horses. It was not “arbitrarily on some list.”

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        • dynamite drop in monty

          11 months ago

          Have you or any member of your family ever been diagnosed schizophrenic or mentally incompetent?

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        • CRydbom

          11 months ago

          Well, Tom House admitted to he and his teammates taking Horse Steroids in the early 1970s when he was with the Braves. So it Baseball, and no sport is more based on tradition.

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        • johnsilver

          11 months ago

          I remember Tom House also. He played at a time of the “greenie epidemic” and weed was flowing, also drunks were abundant in clubhouses (Billy Martin exhibit A).

          Can read multiple memoirs of players from the time House played.. Even a tad before and find drugs/alcohol in unlimited quantities were supplied by teams even (Booze, greenies).

          Comparing various users at that time to this 1 is totally different.. Especially as 1 described in another topic all the “wokeness” infesting various parts of the country.

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        • formerdraftpick

          11 months ago

          Maybe he is half horse like a minotaur? Or a Motaur?

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        • humphrey x boegarts

          11 months ago

          centaur, a minotaur is half bull

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      • SDHotDawg

        11 months ago

        @dynamite drop …

        It will still be banned. What the hell is wrong with you? Do you actually condone cheating?

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  2. dynamite drop in monty

    11 months ago

    Bold move.

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  3. tonyinmunhall

    11 months ago

    See ya. Time to find different work

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  4. iwamtmy2dollars

    11 months ago

    “This guy here is dead! We’ll cross him off then.”

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  5. hohnav21

    11 months ago

    Hmm all those Astros players cheating gets nothing. Sounds fair

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    • DarkSide830

      11 months ago

      you know full well why this is different and much more clear-cut

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      • Strike Four

        11 months ago

        This isn’t clear-cut though. PED’s don’t hit a baseball. It’s a skill game.

        The Astros case is FAR more clear-cut than any PED “bust”.

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        • DarkSide830

          11 months ago

          the buzzer or trash can doesn’t either.

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        • DrLava

          11 months ago

          the advantage to knowing what pitch is coming and where is far superior to the advantage you might get from being able to lift weights longer.

          for example if we put you personally up to bat and tell you a fastball is coming low and away you may actually be able to foul it off. but if we give you bolderone and you have no idea what pitch is coming you wont come close to even touching the ball. so whats a more clear cut advantage?

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        • SDHotDawg

          11 months ago

          Apples and oranges. Period.

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        • Freddy H

          11 months ago

          Cheating is cheating. And Astros had worst cheating scheme in history, period.

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        • theeterps

          11 months ago

          Oh please

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    • stgpd

      11 months ago

      Deck the all

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    • gozurman1

      11 months ago

      They players got nothing because the only way to get any player to talk was to grant them immunity.

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  6. pic369

    11 months ago

    Instead of trying to improve his performance with PEDs he should have just created a sign stealing system. Not only would his stats improve but there’s no suspensions when you’re caught.

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  7. DarkSide830

    11 months ago

    that would explain 2018

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  8. leefieux

    11 months ago

    Starling Marte protege?

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    • StPeteStingRays

      11 months ago

      Francis Martes was suspended earlier this week for the same PED, boldenone, as Pablo Reyes.
      Starling Marte was suspended for nandrolone in 2017.
      A better question is, what are they thinking in the Dominican Republic?

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      • gozurman1

        11 months ago

        They are thinking that they can easily get the stuff and they hope that they can mask it.

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        • StPeteStingRays

          11 months ago

          Yeah, and that’s dumb. My point is that they aren’t thinking. Detection methods have gotten way better, so they have to be extremely careful of what they ingest if not deliberately shooting up. Maybe it’s something in that country that’s tainted, like meat.

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      • MWeller77

        11 months ago

        3 people is a really small sample size. It’s almost certainly a coincidence.

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        • StPeteStingRays

          11 months ago

          Sample size is much greater than 3. Of the last 11 players popped for PEDs, 9 have been from the Dominican Republic. And I didn’t go back further than 2017. That’s a disproportionate amount of players from the DR to be a coincidence.
          In this case, percentage is more significant than n (sample size)

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        • Mo4ever

          11 months ago

          There have been more than 11 caught for PED’s since 2017.

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        • StPeteStingRays

          11 months ago

          On one site I found 11,and on another 15. You may be right. My point remains: the majority have been from the Dominican Republic

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        • SDHotDawg

          11 months ago

          Is Robinson (cheater) Cano from the DR?

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        • WereAllJustGuestsHere

          11 months ago

          Cano played for DR in the World Baseball Classic. All signs point to yes.

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  9. stgpd

    11 months ago

    What’s with the Pirates and Boldenone?

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    • dynamite drop in monty

      11 months ago

      What’s the deal with homework?

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      • DarkSide830

        11 months ago

        what’s the deal with airline food?

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    • WereAllJustGuestsHere

      11 months ago

      It’s their way of gaining an edge on the competition. It’s like that team everyone’s talking about who steal’s signs with cutting edge technology.

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      • Indiansjoe

        11 months ago

        Yea, they should have to vacate their 5th place finish…it’s only fair

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        • WereAllJustGuestsHere

          11 months ago

          Well done IndiansJoe. Well done.

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        • Freddy H

          11 months ago

          Wish they would cheat more, cuz they’re never going to compete with cheapskate calling the shots

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  10. ardaines

    11 months ago

    pretty bad when you are taking peds and there is no performance from them…

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  11. Strike Four

    11 months ago

    There seems to be a certain race of people continually getting busted for PEDs. This is 100% MLB’s fault for not onboarding people from not-America in how to deal with banned substances while living overseas. Another Manfred-fail.

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    • dynamite drop in monty

      11 months ago

      You’re right again, jerk!

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    • whosyourmomma

      11 months ago

      Players & some teams apparently need better chemists. I’ve said for 10-15 years that Mlb drug policy is a total joke! They honestly should let players take anything they want at this point. Why have *** next to Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Clemens, Arod, etc? There were easily dozens or hundreds of others on the juice but they couldn’t match the stats those guys put up!

      Incentives are there for the players and frankly owners who each want to make money. Risk=reward. Some teams and players just have better masking agents or immunity.

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      • dynamite drop in monty

        11 months ago

        You’re right!!!

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      • DrLava

        11 months ago

        it has nothing to do with chemistry. its baseball, so what can you actually take to achieve real results? you dont need cardio so nobody will bother with any epo or sarm. so basically you can put on weight or shave weight and both require alot of work. these drugs arent magic. you dont take steroids and magically gain 50 lbs of muscle or shed 30 lbs of fat. you take them then work out twice as hard as you could before and after about 5-7 cycles you actually see results to your body. and of coarse none of that actually makes you better at hitting a baseball.

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    • DonB34

      11 months ago

      Yeah, I guess “Don’t stick a needle with random substances into your arm” is just too hard for people to comprehend…….. I can see how that’s Manfred’s fault…….

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    • names

      11 months ago

      I know! Asians are getting screwed

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  12. jlace14

    11 months ago

    Didn’t help him get any better..

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    • twentyforty

      11 months ago

      If anyone believes PEDs are limited to fringe MLB players they may also still believe in Bigfoot.

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      • whosyourmomma

        11 months ago

        1000% agree!

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      • jlace14

        11 months ago

        Then why do they take them ?

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        • DrLava

          11 months ago

          cause she’ll like it too

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  13. AllRiseForTheJudge

    11 months ago

    Maybe it’s time to start banning guys for a full season for the first offense and then issuing lifetime bans after that? Clearly, the current penalties are an insufficient deterrent.

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    • Mo4ever

      11 months ago

      I agree with your recommendation but also what’s insufficient are the number of tests per year. I also think there are ways players are tipped that tests are coming. With drugs that act so fast and flush out of the system so quickly, it’s very loose. The testing has to happen constantly, without notice, without informants… I guarantee there are upwards of 100 players doing PED’s and we are seeing a half dozen or so getting caught. They are doing it because 1) money and 2) low risk. Relatively speaking, few are getting caught.

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      • AllRiseForTheJudge

        11 months ago

        I think a system like the NFL’s testing policy would work, but I’m not sure the union would ever go for it. Random drug tests summoned by letter in the player’s locker before or after a game and they need to submit for testing right there on the spot if at home, or within 24 hours if on the road.

        Everyone gets randomly tested once in the first half of the season, and then again in the second half. Players on playoff teams are randomly tested during each round. I know that’s a lot of testing, but it effectively weeds out PED use entirely if a positive test comes with an automatic full-season suspension for the first offense and a lifetime ban for a second offense.

        If you really want to send a message, anyone caught using PEDs during the playoffs is automatically banned for life. I know most of my suggested testing policy is extreme and highly unlikely to ever happen, but at a minimum there needs to be an element of true randomness to the testing process and much stiffer penalties for testing positive. The only way to achieve a game free of PED use is to start banning people for life, no exceptions, no reinstatement. I believe everoyne deserves a second chance, but if you blow that second chance, you have no business in baseball.

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  14. Indiansjoe

    11 months ago

    I guess this shines a different light on current events. Atleast if you cheat, win!!! Otherwise it’s just embarrassing

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  15. Frank Friedlander

    11 months ago

    This is by far the most heinous offense by a Pittsburgh Pirates player in recent memory!!!

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    • AllRiseForTheJudge

      11 months ago

      Aside from playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates?

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  16. i hate my father

    11 months ago

    Somebody has to mention the Chris Archer trade when the Pirates are involved in a Article.

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    • KermitJagger

      11 months ago

      No. No they don’t.

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    • StPeteStingRays

      11 months ago

      Glasnow and Meadows, there… Sorry, Pitt

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      • KermitJagger

        11 months ago

        Hey at least we’ll still have a team in a decade. May not be much, but it will still be here!

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        • tiredolddude

          11 months ago

          When they decide to move, I’ll be happy to help them load the trucks

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  17. bigbadjohnny

    11 months ago

    80 days for PEDS……..which is good for baseball……

    but if you cheat….you get a Free Pass !….which is bad for baseball !

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    • humphrey x boegarts

      11 months ago

      But you also get a free frogurt! That’s good

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  18. bigbadjohnny

    11 months ago

    there goes his chance for the HOF !

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  19. BigGiantHeadBigGiantHead

    11 months ago

    The Pirates were counting on his .220 average and 2 home runs to make a run at the pennant. Now, all bets are off.

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    • TJECK109

      11 months ago

      Imagine using a PED and still only hitting 2 HR. Imagine if he wasn’t using them

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      • MWeller77

        11 months ago

        If he weren’t using PEDs, he probably doesn’t get those 220 PAs. Sometimes players have to cheat to reach the big leagues.

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      • Chief Two Hands

        11 months ago

        Is that from a John Lennon song?

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  20. puigpower

    11 months ago

    Poor Pirate fans. I hope they have WS in their near figure. They’ve suffered too long.

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    • tiredolddude

      11 months ago

      As long as the Cubs have to wait another 105 years, it’s ok

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  21. TJECK109

    11 months ago

    Pirates aren’t at the length of Red Sox or cubs yet.

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  22. forwhomjoshbelltolls

    11 months ago

    This might well be the second biggest story of the Pirate off season.

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  23. StPeteStingRays

    11 months ago

    One of the advantages of taking androgens from which these athletes benefit is decreased recovery time.

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  24. Kewldood69

    11 months ago

    I never expected this many comments for some random dude.

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    • Chief Two Hands

      11 months ago

      Surprise! Happy birthday!

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  25. Chief Two Hands

    11 months ago

    Nature punishes filthy pirate naughtiness with scurvy. MLB does it with suspensions.

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  26. abcrazy4dodgers

    11 months ago

    This story was paid for by a generous grant from the Houston Astros Baseball Club®

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  27. Rsox

    11 months ago

    Strip him of his title!

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  28. HarveyD82

    11 months ago

    There goes the season… dammit

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  29. throwinched10

    11 months ago

    Serious question here – why does it seem like the majority of players who get busted for PED’s are Latin-born?

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    • tiredolddude

      11 months ago

      If his contract was worth $249m more, he’d be doing commentary and dating Lizzo

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    • Rsox

      11 months ago

      Because in most latin countries you can buy PED’s at the local Circle K.

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      • Chief Two Hands

        11 months ago

        Where strange things are afoot?

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  30. mcmillankmm

    11 months ago

    Where are all the players commenting on this?

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  31. pr0ject2501

    11 months ago

    Blackball this kid. He is a cheater.

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  32. smrtbusnisman04

    11 months ago

    That’s unfortunate. The guy was ok in his short stint at the end of 2018. He completely fell off the map in 2019 and now probably has zero chance of contributing to the big team

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    • Chief Two Hands

      11 months ago

      Fortune had nothing to do with his decision to cheat.

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  33. TrumpCard

    11 months ago

    Im sorry counselor……i refuse to answer on the grounds it may implement me in another suit.

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  34. Moleyrussell’swart

    11 months ago

    I’m starting to believe that every Dominican that’s ever worn a major league uniform was or is on PEDs. It’s an absolute joke. Majority of their star players have either tested positive or been linked to PEDs. I’m not trying to be an ahole either Sosa. Arod, manny (3 times), papi, tejeda, pujols, Cano, Cruz, big sexy (3 times), Ervin Santana, marte, montero, heredia, mota (2 times),Perez (2 times) José guillen, volquez, melky Cabrera, peralta, bastardo, Mejia (3 times), almonte, mondesi, paulino, polanco, Wellington Castillo, Francis Martes 2 times, montas, Pineda, Jorge Sosa, pablo ozuna, noberto, colome, and this clown ^. It’s a joke. Not trying to offend anyone but wtf? Minor leaguers are even worse!

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