Major League Baseball announced on Monday that Astros righthanded pitcher Francis Martes has been suspended for the entire 2020 season after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug known as Boldenone. This is his second suspension for a positive PED test.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Martes was viewed as the next big thing. He was the final piece the Astros picked up in the Jarred Cosart trade in 2014. By 2016, he was ranked as the club’s top prospect, ahead of Kyle Tucker and Forrest Whitley.