NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball granted 105 exemptions for otherwise-banned stimulants in the last year because of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, virtually unchanged from the previous year’s total.
MLB and the players’ union released the report Wednesday, covering a period that ended with the World Series.
The figure has stayed about the same for four years. There were 108 therapeutic use exemptions in 2009. Baseball management says the level of HDAD among young males is higher than for the general population.
There were just two positive tests for steroids in the second full year of the sport’s toughened drug program, according to Dr. Bryan Smith, MLB’s independent drug-testing administrator. Cincinnati pitcher Edinson Volquez and Florida catcher Ronny Paulino were suspended for 50 games each.
