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MLB conducted almost 8000 drug tests last season


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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 1, 2014 -> 03:39 PM)
Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan 17m17 minutes ago

 

MLB's drug report: 112 exemptions for stimulants, down from 119 last year. Two fewer hypogonadism TUEs. 7,929 tests in '14 vs. 5,391 in '13.

 

During the regular season from April through August, there are 750 active players on the MLB rosters at any given time (give or take a couple in extenuating circumstances). In August, teams are allowed to call up 15 more, but that simply doesn't happen. At 750 players, that's 10-11 tests per player. Due to September roster fluctuations, we'll generously round down to 10 tests per player. I'm sure there are some who have never tested or had anything suspicious that comes up that gets tested maybe once a month or once every two months, and others get tested 5-8 times per month, but that's still a lot of tests.

 

Good for MLB. Hopefully they get their marketing figured out and baseball makes a recovery. It is a great game but there's such little exposure to it that it seems as though it's fading out.

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