{"id":4226,"date":"2013-08-05T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2013-08-05T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:31:05","slug":"mlb-suspends-cruz-peralta-cabrera-and-others-50-games-for-peds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/05\/mlb-suspends-cruz-peralta-cabrera-and-others-50-games-for-peds\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB suspends Cruz, Peralta, Cabrera, and others 50 games for PEDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4227\" alt=\"jhonnyperalta\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jhonnyperalta.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jhonnyperalta.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/jhonnyperalta-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The performance enhancing drug suspensions for those linked to the Biogenesis clinic in Florida have been handed out.<\/p>\n<p>MLB has reached agreements with and suspended 11 players reports <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/mlb\/story\/major-league-baseball-alex-rodriguez-ped-use-080513\" target=\"_blank\">FoxSports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CRUZ ACCEPTS:<\/strong> <a title=\"Report: Nelson Cruz will accept 50 game suspension\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/05\/report-nelson-cruz-will-accept-50-game-suspension\/\">Rangers OF accepts penalty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those confirmed to have been suspended are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Nelson Cruz, Texas Rangers outfielder (50 games, no appeal).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Everth Cabrera, San Diego Padres shortstop, (50 games, no appeal).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Jhonny Peralta, Detroit Tigers shortstop (50 games, no appeal).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Antonio Bastardo, Philadelphia Phillies reliever (50 games, no appeal).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Jordany Valdespin, New York Mets outfielder, (50 games, no appeal).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Francisco Cervelli, Yankees catcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Jesus Montero, Seattle Mariners catcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Cesar Puello, New York Mets outfield prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Fautino De Los Santos, San Diego Padres pitching prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Sergio Escalona, Houston Astros pitching prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Fernando Martinez, New York Yankees outfield prospect.<\/p>\n<p>Previously baseball suspended Ryan Braun for a season-ending 65 games for his link to the clinic. Bartolo Colon will not face any further penalty nor will Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera.<\/p>\n<p>A penalty for Alex Rodriguez is expected to be announced later today. Rodriguez is expected to appeal his suspension and was &#8220;<a title=\"Girardi: A-Rod penciled in for Monday\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/04\/girardi-a-rod-penciled-in-for-monday\/\">penciled in<\/a>&#8221; to the Yankees lineup for Monday&#8217;s game against the White Sox in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The performance enhancing drug suspensions for those linked to the Biogenesis clinic in Florida have been handed out. MLB has reached agreements with and suspended 11 players reports FoxSports.com. CRUZ ACCEPTS: Rangers OF accepts penalty Those confirmed to have been suspended are: \u2022\u00a0Nelson Cruz, Texas Rangers outfielder (50 games, no appeal). \u2022\u00a0Everth Cabrera, San Diego [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[433],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jhonny-peralta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}