OT: Byrd suspended for PED use

[dabynsky]

Byrd is still a FA, hasn't signed with anyone since being released by Red Sox. Tested positive 4 Tamoxifen, known as cancer prevention drug.

https://twitter.com/Sean_McAdam/status/217348772475305984

Wasn't helping him and other jokes to follow I am sure...

 

[inactiveuser1]

You beat me to making the thread just barely :clap:

 

[Jntg4]

Shocking that Byrd would do this, he never seemed like that kind of player, and I'm not just saying that because he sucks.

 

[dabynsky]

Seriously when Alex Sanchez tested positive that told me anyone was possibly using. Apparently Byrd tested positive for an Estrogen blocker that dopers use to mitigate the side effects of steroids.

 

[Rice Cube]

Just thought of this, but...if suspended, does this mean the Cubs don't have to pay 50 games' worth of Byrd's salary?

 

[dabynsky]

Yeah that is interesting to think about Rice. The BoSox were paying some of it as well. So I wonder who gets the benefit of those 50 games of upaid time.

 

[Anno Catuli]

My guess is the Cubs since they are paying the bulk of it.

But maybe each gets some money back

 

[Anno Catuli]

Shocking that Byrd would do this, he never seemed like that kind of player, and I'm not just saying that because he sucks.

Shocking? Seriously? His trainer was Victor Conte

 

[Rice Cube]

I think the trade entailed that the Cubs had to send money, so if they had to send all of it at once it seems that Boston gets the benefit. But I don't see why the transactional rules would penalize the Cubs here. Maybe someone should e-mail Muskat and make her do her job :lol:

 

[ZDemp34]

Performance-enhancing? :rofl: :lmao: :doorrofl: :rolling:

 

[dabynsky]

Shocking? Seriously? His trainer was Victor Conte

Yeah Rozner tweeted earlier that Byrd was quoted as saying that Conte could teach him how to beat the tests but he would have to ask him. That was in 2011.

 

[Jntg4]

I had completely forgotten about the Conte thing.

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

other than eating up salary, he isn't our problem now

 

[Rice Cube]

other than eating up salary, he isn't our problem now

Do you know if the Cubs are off the hook for some of that salary?

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

Do you know if the Cubs are off the hook for some of that salary?

no clue, i'm not sure what the rule is for that

if they are,in some nuance, then it makes me even more glad we traded him

 

[Rice Cube]

I think it's entirely dependent on whether the Cubs had to send all the money to the new team (Boston) all at once or if they are allowed to pay it in installments as if the guy is still on the payroll (i.e. per game check). If it's the former then I wonder if Boston just returns the part of the money that the Cubs gave them that they now don't have to pay to Byrd.

 

[daddies3angels]

shocker #notshocking

 

[DewsSox79]

wasnt like he was making 20 million. wouldnt sweat it either way.

 

[Rice Cube]

The Cubs won't recoup any of the $6.5MM released outfielder Marlon Byrd is being paid this year despite his unpaid 50-game suspension, writes Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Via MLBTR.

Lame.

 

[2SeamHeat]

The Cubs won't recoup any of the $6.5MM released outfielder Marlon Byrd is being paid this year despite his unpaid 50-game suspension, writes Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Via MLBTR.

Lame.

I didn't think so... as he was on the Red Sox payroll at the time of the suspension... and I'm pretty sure the Cubs had to send all of the cash at the time of the trade. That's usually how it works.