Carp slugger Batista tests positive for banned substance

What substance?

Just saying "banned" leaves a hell of a lot to the imagination, and without hearing his side of the story, it's all one-sided, judge, jury and executioner, all wrapped up into one!

What substance?

My question too.

Steroids.

Drugs? Again did he not know?

Just saying "banned" leaves a hell of a lot to the imagination, and without hearing his side of the story, it's all one-sided, judge, jury and executioner, all wrapped up into one!

NPB follows WADA guidelines on banned substances so it would have probably been a PED of some sort. They only started testing players a couple of years ago, so he is one of the first to be caught.

Also note that he hasn’t actually been punished by the league yet, he has just been deactivated (benched) by the team pending whatever the league does. He’ll have a chance to tell his story, but if you’ve got the drugs in your system its going to be hard to wriggle out of it....

if you’ve got the drugs in your system its going to be hard to wriggle out of it....

Banned substances is too wide of a description, if it's steroids, there COULD be a medical reason, hell doctors here proscribe steroids for a wide range of reasons, and on the other hand, it could very well be something he ingested in his food that triggered it too.

I know attention grabbing headlines, and convicting him before anything is actually proven, is the way things are today!