Two Yankee prospects suspended for PED use

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Four Dominican Summer League prospects have been suspended for the first 50 games of the season after failing drug tests. Two of the players were Yankees; pitcher Israel Tolentino and catcher Josue Rodriguez. The other 2 are Mets pitcher Melvin Colon and Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Lebron.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/minorlbb/news/story?id=4984278

 

It's not much of a story, but being that Yankee players are involved I thought I would share. It seems like the majority of the suspensions that are handed out for PED's are to players out of the DSL. I know the excuse in the past is that they either didn't know what they were taking, or that they didn't know the ingredients, listed in spanish on the packaging, were banned under the drug policy. But I don't think that's the case here being that they tested positive for boldenone and stanozolol. Either way, the problem seems to be more prevalent among the young Dominican players, and they need to find a way to fix that.

[jacksonianmarch]

Josue Rodriguez was a sleeper in the DSL apparently. Good stuff, but otherwise needed a boat load of polish. I havent head much on Tolentino. Regardless, they are just fighting to get stateside let alone move up the ranks. They'll probably get released

[Dipre]

The "young Dominican player" population is bigger than any other "young X country player" population, not to mention the issue that this is the only country where MLB hasn't stepped up and started regulating trainer activity for fear that the influx of young talent might diminish.