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Most guys cannot hit anymore in majors
Nothing works not even drugsComment -
He just got paid too
backended like chuck and Larry
dumb , do it year b4 breakout/all starComment -
2017 OF Starling Marte 80 2016 P Jenrry Mejia Permanent 2016 OF Marlon Byrd 162 2016 C Taylor Teagarden 80 2016 2B Dee Gordon 80 2016 1B Chris Colabello 80 2016 OF Abraham Almonte 80 2016 SS Raúl Mondesi 50 Comment -
makes no sense
only guys that should be risking it are fringe players trying to get/stay in the big leaguesComment -
If I'm not mistaken, isn't there a clause in contracts now where they don't get paid if they test positive? Not sure, but I think I heard that. If that's the case, this is going to hurt.Comment -
IdiotComment -
Marte made over 25 mil
you guys are so quick to judge
you never cheated on an exam?
Never stole to feed your habit?
Never cheated on your girl?
These are kids , shame shame shame (in game of thrones voice)
25% of posters prob owe child support or alimony
never drove drunk? After fight w/ you girl?
but you crucify 16!
RIP
FURTHERMORE , the most searched porn category last 3 years is "teen"
how many dads jerking off to girls the ages of their daughters
zero perspective
zero self awareness
trying to cap a ball game of millionaires
how about taking some time
and handicap yourselfComment -
Starling Marte this week described his idiotic intake of Nandrolone as simply “a mistake I made,” like he’d gone to the store and brought home the wrong kind of light bulbs.
Oops.
The oft-overrated outfielder whose actions got him suspended for 80 games and helped poison the baseball season around here first blamed “neglect” and “lack of knowledge,” when the news hit in April, and reiterated this week that his use of performance enhancing drugs was a one-time event last offseason, when he was “just thinking there’s always something that can help.”
If Marte wants something that can help boost the career of a supposed five-tool player who averages 16 homers and 64 RBIs per summer, he can always try not swinging at pitches a foot-and-a-half outside. Marte insisted this week his career stats are legitimate. Is that the good news or the bad news? Listed among similar players to Marte through age 27 at baseball-reference.com, statistically speaking, you’ll find another notorious Pirate, one Derek Bell.
So we’re to believe that a player in the middle of a $31 million contract that could balloon with club options to $55 million just started taking steroids, and just started taking Nandrolone, a hardcore old-school anabolic fashionable among drug cheats in the Barry Bonds 73-homer era.
Right.
To paraphrase Richard Dreyfuss in another summer fish tale, “This was not a dope accident.”
Still, Marte will likely come out of this OK, particularly on a franchise that under Bob Nutting never had any difficulty welcoming PED suspendees including Marlon Byrd, Francisco Cervelli, Antonio Bastardo, Edinson Volquez and Michael Morse.
The people most betrayed by Marte this summer are the scores of Pirates employees who dedicate their entire professional existence to putting an appealing face on an organization that might not always deserve it, all the good people in community relations, public affairs and Pirates Charities, as well as dozens more ballpark operatives, and don’t forget the talented people at Root Sports, who, counting pregame and postgame programming, essentially produce a slick, five-hour Pirates infomercial five or six nights a week six months out of the year.
To say nothing of Marte’s non-cheating teammates and the non-cheating players throughout the Pirates’ system.
GENE COLLIER
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteComment
