Morosi: Freddy Galvis Proves Need For Rule Change

If Freddy Galvis could add a dozen home runs to his game, he'd be quite the useful player. Looks like everyone was in agreement on that point, including Galvis, who was suspended for 50 games for using Clostebol, an anabolic steroid that can be used as a performance-enhancing drug.

It looks like Galvis will miss some time, then. Except he was already going to miss a large chunk of time because of a stress fracture in his back. And he can serve the suspension while he's on the DL. Galvis was suspended for performance-enhancing drugs, but he's not going to miss any extra time for it. That seems ... odd. Jon Paul Morosi thinks so too:

If a player tests positive for a PED, time on the disabled list shouldn’t count toward his sentence. A panel of doctors – jointly agreed upon by MLB and the union – ought to determine when he would otherwise be fit to return, at which point the suspension would commence. The union may have argued that players’ rights would have been jeopardized by such a system, but those concerns could have been allayed with a union-approved doctor on the panel.

I don't know enough about the ins and outs of the CBA and the MLBPA to argue for or against Morosi's suggested fix, but at least we can all agree that it's odd that Galvis isn't missing any extra time. It's odd, right? Seems odd. Also, strange.

Freddy Galvis Confused By PED Test Results

Phillies infielder Freddy Galvis tested positive for a metabolite of a steroid, and when that happens, a player gets suspended by Major League Baseball. Galvis was asked to explain his situation, and he says he doesn't understand how this happened. So either Galvis is telling the truth and something's gone awry, or Galvis doesn't have any qualms with lying to the media. I genuinely don't know. I'm just here to report the facts. Some facts, by which I mean some tweets:

"I cannot understand how even this tiny particle of a banned substance got into my body,'' Galvis said.

— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) June 19, 2012

"I have not and never would knowingly use anything illegal to enhance my performance,'' Galvis added. #phillies

— Jerry Crasnick (@jcrasnick) June 19, 2012

Galvis claims that he's innocent, or at least that he didn't ingest a PED on purpose. Suspended players usually say that, and probably not all of them are being truthful, but probably not all of them are lying, either, so we don't know the truth about Galvis. The only truth we do know about Galvis is that he's been suspended for a positive PED test, and now it's up to him to deal with his new reality.

Freddy Galvis Suspended After Positive PED Test

Injured Phillies infielder Freddy Galvis is looking at a 50-game suspension after testing positive for a metabolite of Clostebol, which is an anabolic androgenic steroid.