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Article: NOTES Jeffress' suspension official Pitcher has tested positive three times
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2009
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Major League Baseball officially announced Jeremy Jeffress' 100-
game suspension Monday. The suspension is his second penalty for
testing positive for a "drug of abuse."
If Jeffress, the Milwaukee Brewers' top pitching prospect, tests
positive one more time, he will receive a lifetime ban under the
Minor League Drug Treatment and Prevention program. Jeffress, 21,
served a 50-game suspension that carried into the 2008 season but he
was still good enough to be named the organization's minor-league
pitcher of the year.
This is actually the third time Jeffress has tested positive, but
there is no suspension for the first offense. The minor-league drug
program doesn't reveal the drug of abuse, ...