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Iron Pigs Pitcher Alec Asher Suspended 80 Games for PEDs
By Jim Adair
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Alec Asher, most recently with the Iron Pigs, has been suspended after testing positive for Dehydra… Dehyrochla… Zo?
RHP Alec Asher suspended 80 games without pay after testing positive for Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, a PED.
— Todd Zolecki (@ToddZolecki) June 16, 2016
Asher came over in the Cole Hamels deal last year and made his MLB debut soon after, going 0-6 with a 9.31 ERA in 7 starts in 2015. Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (brand name Oral Turinabol) is taken as a pill and is an anabolic steroid. After the Blue Jay’s Chris Colabello got popped for using it, the team SB Nation site described it as “one of those PEDs that’s mainly responsible for all those Communist gold medals handed out from then until tests were developed to detect it.” Basically, it’s a steroid that is only a steroid and you can’t really argue that you didn’t know you were taking a steroid. As an anabolic steroid, it’s also a Schedule III controlled substance, so this isn’t good for Asher.
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