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Robinson Cano is suspended for the year and will miss out on $24 million after he failed a test for performance enhancing drugs, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN:
BREAKING: New York Mets second baseman Robinson Cano has tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug and will be suspended for the entire 2021 season, sources familiar with the situation tell ESPN. He will forfeit a $24 million salary. News story will be up soon at ESPN.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) November 18, 2020
The reason for the full-season suspension is that Cano previously faced an 80-game suspension for failing a PED test in 2018. His former Yankees teammate, Mark Teixeira, said matter-of-factly at the time that he was not surprised.
After this season, Cano still has two more years remaining on a 10-year, $240 million contract that he originally signed with the Mariners before the 2014 season.
He needed to juice in order to keep making these paychecks. This $24 million is just the opportunity cost to make $100 million.
He’s on his last big contract. The cost with 3 years left to FA is higher than any monetary benefit. Doesn’t many financial sense except he’s been on PEDs most of his career and never worried about being caught or the cost. Just kept doing what he knows.