Steven Wright facing 80 game suspension

[mvp 78]

No one ever has an idea how they possible could have PEDs in their system!!!!!

[fxkatt]

The relief staff looks considerably more problematic now. But this will give a couple of these off-season vet pickups a good shot at making the roster. And perhaps surprising. Yet, I think the bullpen may very well be what costs us most as a winning team.

[dgalehouse]

We need to stop making excuses for Wright . He clumsily gets hurt running the bases . Oh , it was Farrell's fault . His wife calls 911 for domestic violence. Oh , he didn't really hurt her . Just a misunderstanding. He tests positive for P.E.D. s . Oh , he was just treating his injury. He didn't know what he was taking . Enough .

[harmony]

I'm not buying it. Any MLB player knows to check and double check anything they take.

Precisely how does a person do that?

Steven Wright may well be a lying cheat but alternative theories exist.

[moonslav59]

The relief staff looks considerably more problematic now. But this will give a couple of these off-season vet pickups a good shot at making the roster. And perhaps surprising. Yet, I think the bullpen may very well be what costs us most as a winning team.

Barnes & Brasier
Hembree
Workman
Johnson
Thornburg
Velazquez or Poyner

Outside chance:
Lakins
Brewer
Mejia
Walden
Putman
D Tapia
(Feltman- late season)

Starters to the pen?
Shawaryn
Shepherd
ERamirez
Josh Smith
RWeber

[a700hitter]

Maybe Jerry gave him a Vitamin B-12 shot.

[moonslav59]

maybe jerry gave him a vitamin b-12 shot.

lol

[notin]

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03...s-for-hgh-use/

Perhaps most frustrating for the Red Sox is that Wright knew he failed a drug test in the offseason but said he was appealing the suspension and didn’t feel obligated to tell the team until last week.

“Because I knew it was coming, I kind of held out hope in the arbitration or the hearing and stuff,” Wright said. “But I knew it was inevitable, so I felt like my obligation to tell them, I had to, just because of the respect that I have for them.”

If he felt he was obligated to tell the team (like he claims) he would've said something when it happened. He withheld that info out of self-preservation. But it's funny how he's trying to spin it.

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

[moonslav59]

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

Exactly, but if his contract is not guaranteed anyways, what's the difference?

[dgalehouse]

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

Maybe , but it would have been the right thing to do . Maybe too much to expect from him .

[mvp 78]

If he told them when it happened, he might have been non- tendered...

What an asshole.

[Slasher9]

someone may want to check in on his wife tonight....

[Nick]

I guess we saved around $680K in salary.

[moonslav59]

I guess we saved around $680K in salary.

Well, if we replace him with a min wage guy, the differential is not that much.

If we cut his ass, it's more.

[FredLynn]

So a player who tests positive does not have to inform his team until after the appeal is denied? (I guess that makes sense, but it seems odd to me, in that the 80-game suspension comes completely out of the blue--wouldn't the team want to be involved in the appeal?)

Even if he was not REQUIRED to let the team know it was a moral imperative that he inform them.
Get rid of him and move on.