{"id":67926,"date":"2026-03-03T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/braves-profar-to-land-162-game-ban-and-forfeit-15m-after-reportedly-failing-ped-test\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:01:13","slug":"braves-profar-to-land-162-game-ban-and-forfeit-15m-after-reportedly-failing-ped-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/braves-profar-to-land-162-game-ban-and-forfeit-15m-after-reportedly-failing-ped-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves\u2019 Profar to land 162-game ban and forfeit $15m after reportedly failing PED test"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Designated hitter was also banned last season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Player set to miss postseason and WBC too<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Atlanta Braves designated hitter Jurickson Profar faces a 162-game suspension after a second positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48090231\/braves-profar-faces-162-game-ban-2nd-ped-violation\">ESPN reported on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the punishment is confirmed, the 33-year-old will also forfeit his entire $15m salary for the 2026 season and will be ineligible for the postseason and for this month\u2019s World Baseball Classic, where he was due to play for the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/03\/braves-profar-to-land-162-game-ban-and-forfeit-15m-after-reportedly-failing-ped-test\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designated hitter was also banned last season Player set to miss postseason and WBC too Atlanta Braves designated hitter Jurickson Profar faces a 162-game suspension after a second positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, ESPN reported on Tuesday. If the punishment is confirmed, the 33-year-old will also forfeit his entire $15m salary for the 2026 season &#8230; <a title=\"Braves\u2019 Profar to land 162-game ban and forfeit $15m after reportedly failing PED test\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/braves-profar-to-land-162-game-ban-and-forfeit-15m-after-reportedly-failing-ped-test\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Braves\u2019 Profar to land 162-game ban and forfeit $15m after reportedly failing PED test\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}