{"id":604500,"date":"2026-03-03T22:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/604500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:51:19","slug":"report-johan-rojas-tested-positive-for-ped-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/604500\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Johan Rojas tested positive for PED usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Yesterday, there was a report that Johan Rojas had been removed from the Dominican Republic WBC roster for \u201cpersonal decisions\u201d as termed by Nelson Cruz, decisions that have now been given a little more clarification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As said above, Rojas is reportedly appealing said failed test.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is sad news for a few reasons, number one of which that Rojas would consider taking PEDs. We knew that his place in the organization had slipped quite a bit from being the center fielder of the future to \u201cmaybe he\u2019ll make the roster?\u201d Perhaps that fall had led to his apparent decision to partake in PED usage, but now he is facing an 80 game suspension from MLB as well as not being able to participate in this or the next World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We\u2019ll update once more information is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, there was a report that Johan Rojas had been removed from the Dominican Republic WBC roster for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,48,5782,6158,78583,10498,4,320,3838,144,25,5824],"class_list":{"0":"post-604500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-citizens-bank-park","11":"tag-johan-rojas","12":"tag-kyle-ross-imagn","13":"tag-mandatory-credit","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nelson-cruz","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116167697195777399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604500","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=604500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}