Mets 2B Kyle Suire, who spent the majority of 2008 with Kingsport was supended 50 games at the start of the 2009 season for testing positive for testing positive for metabolites of Stanozolol, a steroid.
Kudos to MLB for now releasing the names of the drugs that players test positive for. However, Will Carroll at BP wants more. Carroll wants to know date the positive test was administered and the date of the player’s last clean test. Armed with this information, and knowledge of how long the steroid stays in the user’s body, it would become possible to determine within a tighter range exactly when a player like Suire used the drug.
So how does this work with a player like Suire? will he be suspended during April and May, or will he be suspended until Kingsport has played 50 games.
I don’t know that narrowing down the dates to the point where fans and writers can match them up with performance on the field does anyone any good. I would like to think that MLB has people looking at that in an effort to better understand which drugs actually translate into increased performance, and how much increased performance. But I don’t think it really works that way.
Should be 50 games from the start of the season of the team’s roster he was on at the time of his suspension.
…Was he on a roster in January?