[Sport] Six suspended for doping in the USA, but they play the local tournament

[EvKirito]

 

 

A chosen fanatic, upset by the elimination of the Reds, responds to a laughing star that the player who made the difference (Robinson Canó) cannot play in either the Major or Minor Leagues for the next 162 games because of a second doping test failure.

 

"How do I know he's not playing doped here?" Scarlet says to him. However, the green supporter reminds him that the Chosen One used pitcher Francis Martés in his squad, also suspended for 162 games just after an 80-game warning for violating the doping policy.

 

The discussion heated up and Red argued that the pachyderms also depended on the infielder Domingo Leyba and the reliever Emmanuel Clase, both pending 80 games without charging or playing. And at the same time he tries to prevent a high school student from entering the debate (who is only concerned about the tournament that the Eagles do not win) because Pablo Reyes was on his team, waiting for there to be a schedule to purge 80 games.

 

No one from the Giants appears in the debate. They also have pitcher Edgar Santana, who in June issued a ruling condemning him to 80 games.

 

The Bulls would use Antonio Bastardo, who since 2018 has pending to serve a sanction for 140 games (he already purged one of 50 in 2013), but his refusal to submit to a COVID-19 test led the club to expel him.

 

Tuesday, Leyba, Clase and Reyes played in the 2019-2020 tournament and their suspensions were known by tests applied in the period in which they saw action.

 

In a 59-page document called the Winter League Agreement, the MLB lays out guidelines for its players to participate in the fall-winter leagues. It does not prohibit those suspended for violating doping policy from playing in winter tournaments.

 

381 players participated in the regular phase of the current championship, but only 176 (46%) have a contract in the majors. It is the group exposed to be examined. With the other 54% there is no responsibility.

 

In MLB in 2020, the number of exams plummeted, due to the cutback of the season due to COVID-19 and the suspension of the minor leagues. Urine intakes fell from 9,332 in 2019 to 3,733 and blood intakes from 2,287 to 412.

 

"It's time"

Marcos Díaz understands that it is time for Lidom to take more seriously an issue that has affected the image of Creole baseball.

 

"The most painful thing is that not only Lidom does not just give its followers the credibility of a minimum anti-doping program to pour and dress legally, credibility to winter baseball in our country and it is a shame because I know that there are team executives What do they want to do, but what a shame that the government as such does not demand it, demands it, it is still a private company, the tools exist for it, "said Díaz.

 

The former ultra-distance swimmer chairs the Executive Committee of the Unesco International Convention Against Doping in Sport.

 

Díaz says that a program as demanding as the World Anti-Doping Code is not requested, but a progressive one in coordination with another preventive one to go in a phased manner.

 

“Lidom not only does not have a serious, credible anti-doping program, managed by an impartial third party, such as the National Anti-Doping Agency, which is endorsed by the World Cup (WADA), but a league like ours that is binding in many respects with MLB, is an offense to something unacceptable in world sport, Lidom turns a blind eye. I think it puts him in an inexplicable position, "said the only Dominican to cross the English Channel by swimming and go around Manhattan Island twice.

 

Díaz understands that it is not asked to start with a program as demanding as the World Anti-Doping Code, but step by step, as Venezuela already did in its winter league with a progressive program in coordination with another preventive to go gradually to something that could be shown in the future.