{"id":111247,"date":"2026-03-04T04:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jurickson-profar-suspended-162-games-for-repeated-use-of-banned-substances\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:58:52","slug":"jurickson-profar-suspended-162-games-for-repeated-use-of-banned-substances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/jurickson-profar-suspended-162-games-for-repeated-use-of-banned-substances\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurickson Profar: Suspended 162 games for repeated use of banned substances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jurickson Profar Receives Harsh Sanction and Misses the Season<\/h2>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves&#8217; designated hitter, Jurickson Profar, has been suspended for 162 games, which will prevent him from playing for the entire season, according to sources. The suspension is due to a second violation of the performance-enhancing substances policy.<\/p>\n<p>This news means a hard blow for Profar and for the Braves, who will have to adjust their game strategy in the absence of the key player.<\/p>\n<p>Profar will lose his season salary and will not be able to participate in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this sanction, Profar will lose his season salary, estimated at 15 million dollars, and will not be able to participate in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the player will not be able to represent the Netherlands in the next World Baseball Classic, an event in which his participation was expected.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2025, Profar had been suspended for 80 games after testing positive for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).<\/p>\n<p>Signed for three years and $42 million after his best season with the San Diego Padres, Profar returned in mid-2025 and left with a .245 batting average, 14 home runs, and 43 RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jurickson Profar Receives Harsh Sanction and Misses the Season The Atlanta Braves&#8217; designated hitter, Jurickson Profar, has been suspended for 162 games, which will prevent him from playing for the entire season, according to sources. The suspension is due to a second violation of the performance-enhancing substances policy. This news means a hard blow for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[769,88,5254,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-111247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-jurickson-profar","11":"tag-suspension"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}