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madinmaryland

(64,933 posts) Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:49 PM Oct 2012

Cabrera reinstated following 50-game suspension

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco outfielder Melky Cabrera has been reinstated by Major League Baseball after serving a 50-game suspension for a positive testosterone test, but he will not be part of the Giants' playoff roster.

Cabrera is back on the Giants' 40-man roster as of Friday. Giants vice president of baseball operations Bobby Evans says, "Cabrera's status regarding the postseason remains unchanged" after the club announced Sept. 27 it wouldn't add Cabrera for any round.

The Giants open the NL championship series on Sunday.

Cabrera was suspended Aug. 15, a month he was the All-Star game MVP. He was batting .346 with 11 home runs and 60 RBIs in his first season with San Francisco.

To clear roster room, San Francisco outrighted right-hander Shane Loux and outfielder Justin Christian to Triple-A Fresno.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/baseball/mlb/10/12/giants-cabrera.ap/index.html#ixzz29PWYRCCY

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Cabrera reinstated following 50-game suspension (Original Post) madinmaryland Oct 2012 OP

FYI: Bay Area writers reported this allows the Giants Auggie Oct 2012 #1

Yeah, but is the FBI still investigating him? nt joeybee12 Oct 2012 #2

I read on the internets that he admitted to using the stuff. There was no madinmaryland Oct 2012 #3

Are you referring to the fake website? Auggie Oct 2012 #4

Auggie

(31,171 posts)

1. FYI: Bay Area writers reported this allows the Giants

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:03 PM

Oct 2012

the option of resigning Cabrera should their efforts to find a free agent replacement and/or trade for another player during the off season fail.

A last-ditch back-up plan, probably unlikely to happen.

joeybee12

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2. Yeah, but is the FBI still investigating him? nt

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:14 PM

Oct 2012

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)

3. I read on the internets that he admitted to using the stuff. There was no

Reply to joeybee12 (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:24 PM

Oct 2012

"unknowingly" using it.

Auggie

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4. Are you referring to the fake website?

Reply to joeybee12 (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 07:30 PM

Oct 2012

"... According to multiple reports, an associate of the Giants' slugger was caught by MLB trying to create false evidence that Cabrera had taken the banned substance inadvertently.

Juan Nunez, who works with Cabrera's agents, purchased an existing website, then tried to make it look like Cabrera obtained the substance through that site and, therefore, that everything was on the up-and-up, according to reports initially run by the New York Daily News."

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/20/sports/la-sp-sn-melky-cabrera-20120820

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