CLEVELAND — An already calamitous Toronto Blue Jays season took its newest dour flip Sunday, as infielder Orelvis Martinez was suspended 80 video games with out pay by MLB for violating the league’s Joint Drug Prevention and Remedy Program.
Martinez examined constructive for clomiphene, a performance-enhancing substance. The 22-year-old has accepted his suspension, which is efficient instantly.
“We have been each stunned and disillusioned to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Blue Jays GM Ross Atkins stated in a membership assertion. “We are going to do every little thing in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get by way of this.”
Martinez, one in all Toronto’s prime prospects who earned his first major-league call-up final week, stated by way of a assertion launched by the MLBPA that he ingested clomiphene by way of a fertility medicine referred to as Rejun 50 that he and his associate have been prescribed within the Dominican Republic final low season.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this therapy didn’t embody efficiency enhancing medicine,” Martinez stated within the assertion. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my workforce or the MLBPA.
“What that stated, I took full accountability for my actions and accepted my suspension.”
