March 3 (UPI) -- Atlanta Braves veteran Jurickson Profar tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug for the second time in a year and faces a 162-game ban.
Sources told ESPN, The Athletic and the New York Post about the positive test. MLB suspended Profar last March for 80 games after he tested positive for chorionic gonadotropin, a performance-enhancing substance.
Players who test positive for performance-enhancing substances on two occasions are given automatic 162-game suspensions under the terms of MLB's joint drug prevention and treatment program. A third violation results in a permanent ban.
Profar, who signed a three-year, $42 million deal with the Braves in January 2025, would forfeit his $15 million salary in 2026 because of the new violation.
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