Major League Baseball is under a chaotic state after April because 6 famous players, such as Dee Gordon of Miami Marlins, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. As a consequence, the organization announced a suspension of next 80 games for those who violated Major League Baseball's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Give that there were just 6 PEDs suspensions throughout the last year, the number of the violation is increasing at an abnormal pace in this year.
I can partly praise that MLB’s drug testing worked and contributed to maintain fair baseball games without PED users. On the other hand, MLB has to tackle with the issue very seriously because it miserably failed to prevent the players from taking advantage of drugs. In my opinion, MLB should think of applying severer penalties to reinforce the deterrence of PED uses. Instead of tolerating the offenders with a 80 games suspension, they deserve to be expelled from MLB forever for the first violation.
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