From the blotter:
The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that New York Yankees Minor League right-handed pitcher Wilking Rodriguez has received an 80-game suspension without pay after testing positive for Furosemide, a performance-enhancing substance in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
Furosemide is a diuretic which, I’ll assume anyway, is used to mask or flush other stuff out of the system. Unless peeing a lot is a performance enhancing thing. I dunno. Athletes are weird. A guy peeing while on the mound would certainly throw the other team off guard and maybe give him an advantage.
Rodriguez, who pitched for a nanosecond for the Royals last season, plays for Scranton. Or he will, maybe, after he sits out 80 games.