{"id":655469,"date":"2013-05-01T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=227692"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:55:38","slug":"suspended-50-games-minor-leaguer-tests-positive-for-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655469","title":{"rendered":"Suspended 50 Games: Minor Leaguer Tests Positive For Steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With an entire decade of Major League Baseball scandals, Olympic athletes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/four-olympians-lose-medals-over-steroid-use-2012-12\">losing medals<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/lance-armstrong-ruling-stripped-of-tour-de-france-titles-2012-10\">Lance Armstrong having his life&#8217;s work erased<\/a>, Americans couldn&#8217;t be blamed for assuming that up-and-coming athletes have learned from the mistakes of others.  Unfortunately, they would be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/nationals\/former-mets-minor-leaguer-brandon-brown-suspended-50-games-for-positive-drug-test\/2013\/04\/30\/6e3cfbea-b1dd-11e2-9fb1-62de9581c946_story.html\">reported<\/a> that a minor league player has been suspended 50 games for using steroids.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Brandon Brown tested positive for Stanozolol, a synthetic anabolic steroid.  Brown is currently a free agent, and his 50-game ban will begin when (and if) he signs with a new team.  He is one of 18 minor league athletes who have been suspended just this year following drug tests.<\/p>\n<p>Brown had most recently played third and second base for the Class A minor league Savannah Sand Gnats, a team which is affiliated with the New York Mets.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=brown-004bra\">Baseball Reference<\/a>, Brown hit .222 with 34 RBIs in his last season with the Sand Gnats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=YjhhrJm-exw:jtwyUQtmUgI:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/YjhhrJm-exw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an entire decade of Major League Baseball scandals, Olympic athletes losing medals, and Lance Armstrong having his life&#8217;s work erased, Americans couldn&#8217;t be blamed for assuming that up-and-coming athletes have learned from the mistakes of others. Unfortunately, they would be wrong. The Associated Press today has reported that a minor league player has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}