Whenever baseball players make the poor decision to use a banned substance — wittingly or not — they immediately sign themselves up to grapple with a series of trickier decisions. First up: How do you explain the positive test, and what exactly do you admit to?
After a positive test for the anabolic steroid clostebol ended his 2022 season before it started — and rocked a sport awaiting his return to the star-studded San Diego Padres — Fernando Tatis Jr. went with “carelessness.” He said in a statement released by the union Friday night that he “inadvertently took a medication to treat ringworm.