{"id":3782,"date":"2013-07-22T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2013-07-22T17:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:57:02","slug":"ryan-braun-suspended-by-mlb-for-65-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/22\/ryan-braun-suspended-by-mlb-for-65-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Braun suspended by MLB for 65 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3783\" alt=\"braun\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/braun.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/braun.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/braun-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun has been suspended by MLB for 65 games for \u201cviolations of the Basic Agreement and its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, &#8221; according to Ken Rosenthal on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Brewers&amp;src=hash\">#Brewers<\/a>\u2019 Braun suspended for rest of season, according to MLB. Effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/359427059434520576\">July 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Braun said in a statement, &#8220;I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braun&#8217;s suspension of 65 games is the rest of the Brewers season. He was earning $8.5M this season. His suspension is without pay, and will cost him about $3.4M.<\/p>\n<p>Braun&#8217;s suspension is the first of many that are coming in regards to the Biogenesis investigation. Many sources expect Alex Rodriguez&#8217;s suspension to be even longer than Brauns, which could effectively end the third basemen&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun has been suspended by MLB for 65 games for \u201cviolations of the Basic Agreement and its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, &#8221; according to Ken Rosenthal on Twitter. #Brewers\u2019 Braun suspended for rest of season, according to MLB. Effective immediately. \u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 22, 2013 Braun said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-3782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}