Aug 27, 2025, 05:19 PM ET<\/p>\n
NEW YORK — Shortstop Peyton Holt was suspended for 80 games Wednesday by Major League Baseball following a positive test for a performance-enhancing substance under the minor league drug program.<\/p>\n
A 25-year-old released by Cincinnati<\/a> earlier Wednesday, Holt tested positive for GW1516.<\/p>\n Holt signed a minor league contract with the Reds in May and hit .151 with three homers, 12 RBI and four stolen bases in 43 games for Daytona of the Class A Florida State League.<\/p>\n Fourteen players have been suspended this year for positive tests, including 12 under minor league programs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> outfielder Jurickson Profar<\/a> was suspended for 80 games on March 31 and Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> closer Jose Alvarado<\/a> for 80 games on May 25 under the major league program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 27, 2025, 05:19 PM ET NEW YORK — Shortstop Peyton Holt was suspended for 80 games Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-115284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}