{"id":409973,"date":"2026-01-13T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409973\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:04:10","slug":"giants-luis-custodio-free-agent-luis-sierra-get-56-game-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409973\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; Luis Custodio, free agent Luis Sierra get 56-game bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e072b79c-4fa1-3a55-bdcd-4d7d9734d79b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sf\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> pitcher Luis Custodio and free agent pitcher Luis Sierra were suspended 56 games each following positive tests under the minor league drug program for players outside the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The pair tested positive for Stanozolol, the commissioner&#8217;s office said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47562910\/of-max-kepler-banned-80-games-violating-mlb-drug-program\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1598579_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Custodio, a 21-year-old left-hander, was 2-1 with a 7.94 ERA in 12 relief appearances last year with Giants Black of the Dominican Summer League after returning from Tommy John surgery. He signed with the Giants in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra, a 20-year-old right-hander, signed with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9ca473b8-e73e-a33d-8ea0-b4d160be4be7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> for a $10,000 bonus last June and went 0-2 with a 9.95 ERA 11 relief appearances for the DSL Orioles. He was released on Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra&#8217;s suspension will start when he signs with a major league organization.<\/p>\n<p>Three players have been suspended this year for positive tests, including free agent outfielder <a data-player-guid=\"6b0eb0d0-47ee-9f0d-35d2-f20d9e274113\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31870\/max-kepler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Kepler<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47562910\/of-max-kepler-banned-80-games-violating-mlb-drug-program\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for 80 games<\/a> on Friday under the major league program following a positive test for Epitrenbolone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; San Francisco pitcher Luis Custodio and free agent pitcher Luis Sierra were suspended 56 games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-409973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}