• Stockton's Cobb suspended
• Rays Minor Leaguers suspended • Dail Villanueva's stats • Jose Hernandez's stats & bio • MLB's drug policy The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that two Minor League pitchers, the Mets' Jose Hernandez and the Cardinals' Dail Villanueva, have each received a 50-game suspension after both tested positive for performance-enhancing substances in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Hernandez, 2-1 with a 2.08 ERA in five games for the Mets' Venezuelan Summer League affiliate, tested positive for metabolites of Stanozolol. He's in his third season with the organization. Villanueva, a 19-year-old left-hander, tested positive for Nandrolone. He was 0-1 with a 3.86 ERA for the Cardinals' VSL club. The suspensions of both Hernandez and Villanueva are effective immediately. Five Minor Leaguers have been suspended for performance-enhancing substances in the last five days -- Stockton's Alex Cobb, an Oakland prospect, was suspended yesterday for amphetamine use, while a pair of Rays VSL farmhands were suspended on June 19. |
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