{"id":603950,"date":"2026-03-03T17:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:31:24","slug":"jurickson-profar-facing-second-162-game-suspension-for-peds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/603950\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurickson Profar facing second 162-game suspension for PEDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news surfaced Tuesday morning in the world of baseball. Stunningly, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/players\/acab0952\/jurickson-profar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jurickson Profar<\/a> has been suspended 162 games (a full season) for testing positive for PEDs for the second time. Jeff Passan was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeffpassan\/status\/2028880474949492839?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on the news<\/a> as always.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Profar played only 80 games after testing positive for the first time. In 2024, Profar hit 24 home runs and drove in 85 runs with a .839 OPS. Those are all career highs. In 2025, Profar hit only 14 homers and 43 RBIs in 80 games.<\/p>\n<p>This is difficult news for the Braves, as this is a team that has dealt with many brutal injuries and distractions over the last couple of years since they last won a World Series in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking news surfaced Tuesday morning in the world of baseball. Stunningly, Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,813,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-603950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-jurickson-profar","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116166439178524852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}