Houston Astros pitching prospect Kent Emanuel has known players who served suspensions for violating baseball’s rules governing performance-enhancing drugs. They always swore they didn’t do it, but Emanuel admits, “There was always that little seed of doubt in the back of my mind.”That changed in June, when Emanuel learned that he had tested positive for Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, an anabolic steroid commonly known as oral Turinabol. It’s mostly associated with East Germany’s state-sponsored doping program throughout...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 19, 2020 14:02 UTC