Braun Suspended for Balance of the 2013 Season

[Iron Horse]

The only way you are going to clean up the sport is to put a clause in their contracts that will allow teams to void their contracts & are suspended for one year the first time you are caught. Your team then will have the right to sign you for 50% of your original contract or release you and you can't sign for any more then 50% of your original contract with any other team as well for 2 years.

[chaddurbin]

mlbpa is too strong, it's not realistic that they're just gonna drop the guaranteed contract clause just to clean up the game. would be a great step forward if that could get done.

if arod's team is smart they'd try to negotiate the same punishment as braun for this year, but i think mlb is pulling out the big hammer for arod. he admitted ped use in '03 (strike 1), link to biogenesis (strike 2), then lying about the association (strike 3!).

[Kenny Cole]

Originally Posted by Iron Horse

The only way you are going to clean up the sport is to put a clause in their contracts that will allow teams to void their contracts & are suspended for one year the first time you are caught. Your team then will have the right to sign you for 50% of your original contract or release you and you can't sign for any more then 50% of your original contract with any other team as well for 2 years.

Poor idea. Do you really think teams care if their stars are using if they are bringing people to the park and not getting caught? I don't. So why should they get the benefit of making money off the cheaters while they haven't tested dirty and then wash their hands of the contract when they do? They are complicit and should have to eat it too IMO.