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- Updated: April 29, 2016
CHICAGO — Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist was caught by surprise when he learned early Friday that fellow second baseman Dee Gordon was guilty of using PEDs.
“The bigger the star, the more upsetting it can be,” Zobrist said when told about Gordon, the reigning National League batting champion, who was suspended 80 games for violating Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Gordon tested positive for exogenous Testosterone and Clostebol.
“It is hard to imagine right now having gone through what we did as an industry, and the testing that’s in place, to think you’d be able to circumvent that somehow seems almost impossible,” Chicago manager Joe Maddon said. “It’s surprising. I don’t really know [Gordon]. I know that he’s really good and I know the difference he made for that team.”
Zobrist said players trust a lot of people who take care of them to protect them from taking anything that could result in …
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