MLB All-Star Jurickson Profar suspended 80 games for violating PED policy

Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar volition beryllium suspended for the adjacent 80 games for violating MLB's argumentation connected performance-enhancing drugs.

Per MLB's policy, adjacent aft Profar returns from suspension, helium volition not beryllium eligible to play successful the postseason. 

MLB announced the suspension successful a connection connected Monday. 

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Jurickson Profar is shown during the sixth inning of Game 2 of the NLDS against the Dodgers successful Los Angeles connected Oct. 6, 2024. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images)

"The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced contiguous that Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has received an 80-game suspension without wage aft investigating affirmative for Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG), a show enhancing substance, successful usurpation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The suspension of Profar is effectual immediately," the connection read. 

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Jurickson Profar takes batting signifier earlier Game 2 of the NLDS against the Dodgers successful Los Angeles connected Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The Braves released their ain connection addressing the suspension. 

"We were amazed and highly disappointed to larn that Jurickson Profar tested affirmative for a performance-enhancing substance successful usurpation of Major League Baseball’s Joint Prevention and Treatment Program. We afloat enactment the Program and are hopeful that Jurickson volition larn from this experience," the squad said. 

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Jurickson Profar of the Atlanta Braves is shown during the archetypal inning against the Padres successful San Diego connected March 30, 2025. (Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)

Profar was named an All-Star for the archetypal clip successful his vocation successful 2024 astatine property 31. He finished the play with career-bests successful batting mean astatine .280, location runs with 24 and RBI with 85. Profar was besides deed by the astir pitches successful MLB past play with 18.

Profar signed a three-year, $42 cardinal woody with the Braves successful January.

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