Message #1178032

[HalfSmokes]

If there is proof that you bought a banned substance, you can get banned even without being tested positive. Apparently.

A few players who were suspended without failing a drug test
Jordan Schafer: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3336898
Rick Ankiel: http://thesteroidera.blogspot.com/2007/09/rick-ankiel-received-human-growth.html

There are probably others, but these players seem to have a decent amount of evidence against them. At least more than Gio does.

Ankiel wasn't suspended
stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071206&content_id=2320597&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl

Shafer was a minor leaguer (no mlbpa)