Fernando Tatis Jr

San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. has been suspended 80 games for violating MLB's performance-enhancing drug policy.

He will lose approximately $1.39 million of his $7 million salary for the first 32 games of next season, with the exact number to be determined by how many days he misses. He will miss the remaining 48 regular-season games this season and the first 32 games next year. "We fully support the Program and are hopeful Fernando will learn from this experience." A second violation earns a suspension equal to the total number of championship season games in the league. "There is nowhere else in the world I would rather be than on the field competing with my teammates," he wrote. I failed to do so."

San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. was suspended 80 games by Major League Baseball on Friday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing ...

Tatis will forfeit $1,510,989 of his $5 million salary this year, covering the final 55 days and 48 games of the season. "We fully support the program and are hopeful that Fernando will learn from this experience.” It is also banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Olympic gold medal winning cross-country skier Therese Johaug was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for it. Johaug, one of Norway’s most decorated female cross-country skiers, tested positive for the steroid clostebol. “I should have used the resources available to me in order to ensure that no banned substances were in what I took. He had not played this season after breaking his wrist in the offseason, but was expected to rejoin the Padres next week to boost a lineup that recently added star outfielder Juan Soto.

San Diego Padres dynamo Fernando Tatis Jr., one of the brightest, freshest stars in all of Major League Baseball, was suspended 80 games on Friday after ...

"There is nowhere else in the world I would rather be than on the field competing with my teammates," Tatis said. Tatis will forfeit $1,510,989 of his $5 million salary this year, covering the final 55 days and 48 games of the season. "We fully support the program and are hopeful that Fernando will learn from this experience." It is also banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, and Olympic gold medal winning cross-country skier Therese Johaug was suspended in 2016 after testing positive for it. He had not played this season after breaking his wrist in the off-season, but was expected to rejoin the Padres next week to boost a lineup that recently added star outfielder Juan Soto. "It turns out that I inadvertently took a medication to treat ringworm that contained Clostebol," he said.

“I have been informed by Major League Baseball that a test sample I submitted returned a positive result for Clostebol, a banned substance. It turns out that I ...

He’s likely to miss around 20% of the schedule, which would translate to around $1.3MM in lost salary next year. That $340MM deal is the fourth-largest in MLB history, and there’s arguably no one more important to the franchise’s long-term future. It’s a crushing blow to a San Diego team that enters play Friday night in possession of the National League’s final Wild Card spot. Perhaps the greater roster ramification is that San Diego now has little recourse to replace scuffling center fielder Trent Grisham. Tatis had been slated to play both shortstop and center field on his rehab assignment, and he may well have gotten more time in the outfield down the stretch. He’ll lose the remainder of this year’s $5MM salary (approximately $1.5MM) as well as around a month’s worth of next year’s $7MM salary. He’d played in four minor league games and was set to rejoin the big league club within a couple weeks. There’s no way to replace a player who owns a .292/.369/.596 slash line through his first three big league seasons, but the Padres are in as good a position as a team can reasonably be to weather Tatis’ absence. I want to apologize to (owner Peter Seidler), (president of baseball operations A.J. Preller), the entire Padres organization, my teammates, Major League Baseball, and fans everywhere for my mistake. The Padres have 48 more games on the regular season schedule. There was finally light at the end of the tunnel, with Tatis sent to Double-A on a rehab assignment last week. The Padres baseball ops leader was forthright about his frustration, suggesting that “over the course of the last six or seven months, I think (trust has) been something that we haven’t really been able to have.” That’s presumably in reference to the motorcycle accident that fractured Tatis’ wrist. In a stunning development, Major League Baseball announced Friday afternoon that the Padres star has tested positive for Clostebol, a banned performance-enhancing substance.