{"id":397985,"date":"2026-01-09T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397985\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:53:08","slug":"former-phillies-twins-of-max-kepler-suspended-80-games-for-banned-ped-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397985\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Phillies, Twins OF Max Kepler Suspended 80 Games for Banned PED Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Free agent outfielder <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/max-kepler-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Kepler<\/a> was suspended for 80 games on Friday following a positive test for a banned performance-enhancing substance in violation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Major League Baseball<\/a>&#8216;s drug program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Kepler tested positive for Epitrenbolone, a substance that led to a suspension in 2018 for boxer Manuel Charr and caused the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to announce the following year it had disqualified 90-year-old cyclist Carl Grove from a world record he had set at the 2018 Masters Track National Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Epitrenbolone is a metabolite of Trenbolone, which is contained in some products used in body-building stores and has been used in products to promote cattle growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Kepler, who turns 33 next month, is an 11-year major-league veteran, who spent last season with the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> after playing his first 10 seasons with the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n<p> FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent outfielder Max Kepler was suspended for 80 games on Friday following a positive test for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-397985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397985","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=397985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}