photo by fantasybaseballcrackerjacks file photo: Miami Marlins Dee Gordon left and batting coach Barry Bonds left behind the cage before a Marlins game

The Miami Marlins are second baseman Dee Gordon suspended on Friday for 80 games for turning out positive for performance enhancing drugs. Gordon said that he had unknowingly took PEDs. Gordon with a slight stature had signed a $50 million five year deal with Miami. The excuse of not knowingly taking steroids sound awfully familiar to Marlins hitting coach Barry Bonds excuse when he was testifying during the BALCO/steroids scandal when he was playing for the Giants. Bonds told the grand jury at the time in 2005 in San Francisco Federal Court that he had taken performance enhancers unknowingly.

Gordon last season was the National League hitting champion last season and with Bonds being his hitting coach some people have compared the two players and both used the excuse that they didn’t knowingly used steroids. Gordon will not be able to return to action until July.

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