{"id":118971,"date":"2026-05-22T21:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/venezuelan-mariners-prospect-jose-zerpa-suspended-80-games-for-doping\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:18:54","slug":"venezuelan-mariners-prospect-jose-zerpa-suspended-80-games-for-doping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/venezuelan-mariners-prospect-jose-zerpa-suspended-80-games-for-doping\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Mariners prospect, Jos\u00e9 Zerpa, suspended 80 games for doping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jos\u00e9 Zerpa, Mariners prospect, suspended for doping<\/h2>\n<p>Venezuelan pitcher Jos\u00e9 Zerpa, a prospect for the Seattle Mariners, has been suspended for 80 games after testing positive for Stanozolol, a banned substance. The sanction was announced this Friday by the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Zerpa, 21 years old and originally from Yaracuy state, was playing with the Inland Empire 66ers, a Class A affiliate of the Mariners in the California League.<\/p>\n<p>The young pitcher was having a good season as a reliever, with a 4-1 record and a 4.70 ERA in ten appearances before the suspension.<\/p>\n<h2>A Brake in His Career<\/h2>\n<p>Zerpa signed with the Seattle organization in 2023 with a minor league contract that included a $10,000 signing bonus. This suspension represents a setback for his development in the minor leagues and delays his aspirations of reaching the Major Leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Zerpa&#8217;s suspension joins a growing list of players sanctioned this year for violating Major League Baseball&#8217;s anti-doping policies, being the seventh player in 2026 to receive a sanction for cases related to steroids or prohibited substances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Zerpa, Mariners prospect, suspended for doping Venezuelan pitcher Jos\u00e9 Zerpa, a prospect for the Seattle Mariners, has been suspended for 80 games after testing positive for Stanozolol, a banned substance. The sanction was announced this Friday by the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Zerpa, 21 years old and originally from Yaracuy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,12709,12708,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-118971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jose-zerpa","10":"tag-stanozolol","11":"tag-suspension"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118971","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=118971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}