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stoutfellowOne of the few highlights of last season for the Padres was the performance of catcher Yasmani Grandal (and isn't that a fine name?), who came over in the Mat Latos trade and displayed a decent glove and a fine bat; he was their cleanup batter by the end of the season.
Today, Grandal was hit with a fifty-game suspension for using a banned substance - testosterone, in this case.
He's young enough that I'm open to accepting this as a youthful blunder, probably in response to an early-season injury. (Open to, I say; I'm not saying I will accept it as such....) A lot of Padres fans are very upset, though. Me, I'm just angry, but not in a zero-tolerance way. (I still remember the sad case of Alan Wiggins, back in the '80s.) It is at least some consolation, in the worst-case scenario, that the Padres do have another prime prospect at catcher in Austin Hedges, but he's still a couple of years away, I think.
Stupid kid.
Today, Grandal was hit with a fifty-game suspension for using a banned substance - testosterone, in this case.
He's young enough that I'm open to accepting this as a youthful blunder, probably in response to an early-season injury. (Open to, I say; I'm not saying I will accept it as such....) A lot of Padres fans are very upset, though. Me, I'm just angry, but not in a zero-tolerance way. (I still remember the sad case of Alan Wiggins, back in the '80s.) It is at least some consolation, in the worst-case scenario, that the Padres do have another prime prospect at catcher in Austin Hedges, but he's still a couple of years away, I think.
Stupid kid.
