2024-02-21 20:26:48
Text: Karla Castillo
The 2021 season will remain just a dream for the Dominican second baseman of the New York Mets, Robinson Canó, after Major League Baseball (MLB) announced his suspension for testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug stanozolol. .
With his suspension, the eight-time All-Star selection and the fourth highest paid (with a figure that exceeds the 200 million offered by the Seattle Mariners), also says goodbye to the opportunity to reach the Hall of Fame.
It is not the first time that the Major League athlete has been suspended, since, in 2018, he missed 80 games while he was with the Seattle Mariners, after testing positive for furosemide, a diuretic, commonly used by some athletes to cover up the consumption of other drugs.
That first offense in 2018 made him one of the most renowned players to be punished for breaking the anti-doping regulations, on the detection of furosemide, that time, he justified that it had been a diuretic recommended in his native Dominican Republic for illnesses. doctors.
Playing with banned substances has been expensive for him, because according to the joint drug agreement between the MLB and the MLB Players Association, a second positive results in an automatic suspension of 162 games, in addition, he will not be able to play in the playoffs, assuming the Mets advance in this postseason.
Likewise, Canó will not receive his agreed salary of 24 million dollars for the 2021 season, as Jeff Passan, a journalist for the ESPN network, recently reported on Twitter.
Of the ten-year, 240 million contract that he signed with the Mariners before the 2014 season, he has two seasons and 48 million left, but the Mariners will pay 7.5 million of the remaining amount.
Canó’s suspension mainly affects him, who turned 38 at the end of October, and age is stalking him, especially when his contract has even surpassed the value he brings as a baseball player on the field.
Some media speculate that The Mets could take advantage of the situation, by saving the 24 million and having more room for maneuver to spend in the offseason, which would even allow them to hire other players who are free agents. at the winter market.