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Alden Gonzalez
Los Angeles – Atlanta Braves Outfielder JurCkon Profar He tested a positive forbidden substance and will start Monday 80 games, to start a series of three games at the Dodger stadium. According to Major League Baseball, Profar has tested positively to chorionic gonadotropin, a drug increasing performance.
Profar will be entitled to Braves 29 June against Philadelphia, but it will be unfit for Postseason 2025.
Profar, 32, signed a $ 1 million contract with San Diego Padres In February 2024 and compiled the best offensive season of his career last season, chopped 0.280/0.380/0.459 with 24 Homers and 85 RBI in 158 games. Braves signed him in a Three -year trade $ 42 million In January to make him his daily left Fielder.
In a statement sent by the MLB Profar Association, he called Monday the “most difficult day of my baseball career” and said it was “destroyed” by the news. Profar added that he was tested eight times on Ped in 2024 and “has never been tested positively”.
“This is particularly painful for me, because anyone who knows me and has seen me knows I am deeply passionate for the game,” Profar wrote as part of his statement. “There is nothing I love more than competing with my teammates and being a favorite fan. I want to apologize to the whole organization Braves, my teammates and fans. It’s because of my deep love and respect for this game that I would never do anything to cheat on it.”
Braves Published a statement of OXHe says: “We were surprised and disappointed when we learned that Jurickson Profar was positively tested on a substance increasing performance in contradiction of the program of common prevention and treatment of Major League baseball.
HCG is a hormone that, according to the Cleveland clinic, helps in the production of testosterone, as quoted by Associated Press.
Profar’s suspension, which is without reward, comes after a brutal opening weekend for Braves, who have been swept in a series of four games, while scoring the combined seven runs-including zero in the last 22 shifts.
Profark’s absence hurts short -haired braves. Outfielder Ronald Acuna JR. is not expected to be back from the injured list for the next month. Jarred Kelenic and Bryan of Cruz In Acuna’s absence, they faced in the right field. When Profar has disappeared, Braves can also turn to the road, as a road, Alex Verduugo, who was signed by the $ 1.5 million agreement, March 20, and chose smaller leagues to get bats.
For now, Braves has won an outfielder Stuart Fairchild from Cincinnati Reds For cash considerations earlier on Monday and added it to the list of 40 men. They are expected to join them on Tuesday. Braves will be one player short against Dodgers on Monday evening.
