Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.
Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.
Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.
Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.
Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.
Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.
Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.
Blue Jays prospect Orelvis Martinez was slapped with an 80-game suspension Sunday after testing constructive for Clomiphene, a banned performance-enhancing substance he claims was prescribed to him by a fertility physician.
The infielder, who made his major-league debut Friday evening after shortstop Bo Bichette was positioned on the injured checklist, mentioned in a press release that he was trying to start out a household together with his girlfriend and was prescribed Rejun 50, a drugs that features Clomiphene, after visiting a fertility clinic within the Dominican Republic over the winter.
“We wished to maintain this matter non-public, even inside our household, and trusted the physician who assured us this remedy didn’t embrace performance-enhancing medicine,” Martinez mentioned. “Subsequently, I made the error of not disclosing this to my staff or the MLBPA.
“With that mentioned, I took full accountability for my negligence and accepted my suspension.”
Toronto GM Ross Atkins additionally launched a press release stating that the Jays “absolutely assist” MLB’s joint drug prevention and remedy program, “and strongly consider in protecting the sport on a stage taking part in discipline.”
“We had been each shocked and dissatisfied to study of Orelvis Martinez’s suspension,” Atkins added. “We’ll do all the things in our energy to make sure Orelvis has discovered from this error. Orelvis has our assist, and we all know he’ll get via this.”
The 22-year-old Martinez was batting .260 with 16 residence runs and an .867 OPS in 63 video games this season for Triple-A Buffalo.