[RangeFinder]

When will guys learn. Unreal.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/225044...picId=27118122

[jjgold]

Most guys cannot hit anymore in majors

Nothing works not even drugs

[Louisvillekid1]

He just got paid too

backended like chuck and Larry

dumb , do it year b4 breakout/all star

[19th Hole]

YEAR	POS	PLAYER	GAMES
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	Raśl Mondesi	50

[krk1030]

makes no sense

only guys that should be risking it are fringe players trying to get/stay in the big leagues

[RangeFinder]

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.

[stevenash]

Idiot

[Louisvillekid1]

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 yourself

[krk1030]

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.

Not sure what you mean exactly? They never get paid during a suspension, but after that the contract stands as it is.

[krk1030]

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

well we dont know when he started. did he need the ped's to make that money, or did he just start taking it trying to get to the next level?

[Louisvillekid1]

Not sure what you mean exactly? They never get paid during a suspension, but after that the contract stands as it is.

For players yes

for coaches

[Chi_archie]

He just got paid too

backended like chuck and Larry

dumb , do it year b4 breakout/all star

?

he signed a contract extension years ago.... Very team friendly deal for Pirates considering his performance

he's barely made 5 million in total yet in like 4 years

this year he will only get about 2.6 mil now

[Mr KLC]

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-Gazette