Steven Wright facing 80 game suspension

[mvp 78]

No one ever has an idea how they possible could have PEDs in their system!!!!!

[fxkatt]

The relief staff looks considerably more problematic now. But this will give a couple of these off-season vet pickups a good shot at making the roster. And perhaps surprising. Yet, I think the bullpen may very well be what costs us most as a winning team.

[dgalehouse]

We need to stop making excuses for Wright . He clumsily gets hurt running the bases . Oh , it was Farrell's fault . His wife calls 911 for domestic violence. Oh , he didn't really hurt her . Just a misunderstanding. He tests positive for P.E.D. s . Oh , he was just treating his injury. He didn't know what he was taking . Enough .

[harmony]

I'm not buying it. Any MLB player knows to check and double check anything they take.

Precisely how does a person do that?

 

Steven Wright may well be a lying cheat but alternative theories exist.

[moonslav59]

The relief staff looks considerably more problematic now. But this will give a couple of these off-season vet pickups a good shot at making the roster. And perhaps surprising. Yet, I think the bullpen may very well be what costs us most as a winning team.

 

Barnes & Brasier

Hembree

Workman

Johnson

Thornburg

Velazquez or Poyner

 

Outside chance:

Lakins

Brewer

Mejia

Walden

Putman

D Tapia

(Feltman- late season)

 

Starters to the pen?

Shawaryn

Shepherd

ERamirez

Josh Smith

RWeber

[a700hitter]

Maybe Jerry gave him a Vitamin B-12 shot.

[moonslav59]

maybe jerry gave him a vitamin b-12 shot.

 

lol

[notin]

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/06/red-sox-steven-wright-suspended-80-games-for-hgh-use/

 

Perhaps most frustrating for the Red Sox is that Wright knew he failed a drug test in the offseason but said he was appealing the suspension and didn’t feel obligated to tell the team until last week.

 

“Because I knew it was coming, I kind of held out hope in the arbitration or the hearing and stuff,” Wright said. “But I knew it was inevitable, so I felt like my obligation to tell them, I had to, just because of the respect that I have for them.”

 

If he felt he was obligated to tell the team (like he claims) he would've said something when it happened. He withheld that info out of self-preservation. But it's funny how he's trying to spin it.

 

 

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

[moonslav59]

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

 

Exactly, but if his contract is not guaranteed anyways, what's the difference?

[dgalehouse]

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

 

Maybe , but it would have been the right thing to do . Maybe too much to expect from him .

[mvp 78]

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

 

What an *******.

[Slasher9]

someone may want to check in on his wife tonight....

[Nick]

I guess we saved around $680K in salary.

[moonslav59]

I guess we saved around $680K in salary.

 

Well, if we replace him with a min wage guy, the differential is not that much.

 

If we cut his ass, it's more.

[FredLynn]

So a player who tests positive does not have to inform his team until after the appeal is denied? (I guess that makes sense, but it seems odd to me, in that the 80-game suspension comes completely out of the blue--wouldn't the team want to be involved in the appeal?)

 

Even if he was not REQUIRED to let the team know it was a moral imperative that he inform them.

Get rid of him and move on.

[fxkatt]

someone may want to check in on his wife tonight....

 

Wright went from the All Star team in '16 (i think) to a pesky injury, to beating on his wife, Shannon, and now in his "comeback year" to a peds violation. Yeah, this may be worse than losing the World Series, so I hope Shannon has a few close friends to turn to, and is on high alert.

[notin]

Even if he was not REQUIRED to let the team know it was a moral imperative that he inform them.

Get rid of him and move on.

 

 

It’s like he was in denial they’d ever find out.

[SCM33]

Dude is a dirtbag. He can go away now.

 

For a soft throwing knuckleballer, the dude has a laundry list of issues. Woman batterer, cheater......enough is enough. He was a good story while it lasted.

[jacksonianmarch]

What a tool. He’s done in Boston. Well, there goes some insurance out in that pen

[Fan_since_Boggs]

Weird. Why would a guy who throws a knuckleball use PEDs? It must be his knee, trying to recover ASAP.

 

I wouldn't release Wright, he is an effective pitcher. It is just a matter of getting him healthy. Who knows, maybe an 80 game suspension will be a good thing for him if he returns with full health.

Edited March 7, 2019 by Fan_since_Boggs

[oldtimer]

Weird. Why would a guy who throws a knuckleball use PEDs? It must be his knee, trying to recover ASAP.

 

I wouldn't release Wright, he is an effective pitcher. It is just a matter of getting him healthy. Who knows, maybe an 80 game suspension will be a good thing for him if he returns with full health.

 

I like your tone. In the case that he is telling the truth about not knowing one of his knee medications may have given him the PED positive rating, like anyone else he deserves the benefit of the doubt. His career may well be over, but if he can come back from this then its all to the good.

[jacksonianmarch]

There are no “knee medications” that have HGH in them

[kenmeister]

Barnes & Brasier

Hembree

Workman

Johnson

Thornburg

Velazquez or Poyner

 

Outside chance:

Lakins

Brewer

Mejia

Walden

Putman

D Tapia

(Feltman- late season)

 

Starters to the pen?

Shawaryn

Shepherd

ERamirez

Josh Smith

RWeber

 

Barnes

Brasier

Hembree

Workman

Johnson

Velazquez

Poyner

 

Is my hope at this point. Hembree could be beat out by Brewer or Lakins.

[mvp 78]

What a tool. He’s done in Boston. Well, there goes some insurance out in that pen

 

Honestly, I'd rather have Lakins out there than Wright.

[Station 13]

The last of the knuckler. Sayonara

[moonslav59]

Weird. Why would a guy who throws a knuckleball use PEDs? It must be his knee, trying to recover ASAP.

 

I wouldn't release Wright, he is an effective pitcher. It is just a matter of getting him healthy. Who knows, maybe an 80 game suspension will be a good thing for him if he returns with full health.

 

I agree.

 

Say what you want about his character, or lack there of, but he was far from ineffective, when he pitched.

[moonslav59]

The last of the knuckler. Sayonara

 

Wright will pitch for someone this year and beyond.

[Maxbialystock]

Wright will pitch for someone this year and beyond.

 

That's what I think too. Good discussion on this thread, but what you say is reality. DD might boot him because he didn't warn the front office, but otherwise might hang onto him. That knuckler has proven itself last year and in prior years, and knucklers can pitch into their 40's--except maybe for knucklers with bad knees.

[BillyWilliams]

I'm not buying it. Any MLB player knows to check and double check anything they take.

 

 

 

Most MLB players are not MENSA members, they don't double check anything and chances are they wouldn't know what they are even looking for half the time. That is the job of medical personnel. That's why I don't believe the excuses when players say "I must have taken it without realizing it"

[FredLynn]

There are no “knee medications” that have HGH in them

 

Sure there are. But they are all forbidden. Yes, there goes some insurance out of the pen, but some things transcend baseball. Wright's laundry list is now long enough to warrant his immediate release IMO.