GaryMrMets
05-14-2005, 10:42 PM
Former Mets player among four suspended for violating drug policy
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Florida infielder Wilson Delgado and Kansas City utilityman Luis Ugueto were among four players given 15-game suspensions Friday for violating baseball's minor league steroids policy.
Pitcher Jeremy Cummings of St. Louis and first baseman Joshua Pressley of Kansas City were also suspended.
Sixty-three players have been suspended this year for violating the minor league program. Five players have been given 10-day penalties for violating the major league program.
Delgado is hitting .244 with two home runs in 33 games for Triple-A Albuquerque this year. He played in 42 games last year for the New York Mets, hitting .292 with two home runs. He has a .251 batting average and five homers over parts of nine major league seasons with San Francisco, the New York Yankees, Kansas City, St. Louis, the Angels and the Mets.
Ugueto, who played for the Seattle Mariners in 2002-03, is batting .213 with one homer in 27 games for Triple-A Omaha. In 74 major league games, Ugueto batted .214 with one homer.
Cummings has a 3.86 ERA in seven appearances for Triple-A Memphis this season, striking out 12 in 14 innings.
Pressley, a 6-foot-6 225-pound first baseman, is batting .325 with a .521 slugging percentage and four homers for Double-A Wichita.
05/13/05 18:08 EDT
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Florida infielder Wilson Delgado and Kansas City utilityman Luis Ugueto were among four players given 15-game suspensions Friday for violating baseball's minor league steroids policy.
Pitcher Jeremy Cummings of St. Louis and first baseman Joshua Pressley of Kansas City were also suspended.
Sixty-three players have been suspended this year for violating the minor league program. Five players have been given 10-day penalties for violating the major league program.
Delgado is hitting .244 with two home runs in 33 games for Triple-A Albuquerque this year. He played in 42 games last year for the New York Mets, hitting .292 with two home runs. He has a .251 batting average and five homers over parts of nine major league seasons with San Francisco, the New York Yankees, Kansas City, St. Louis, the Angels and the Mets.
Ugueto, who played for the Seattle Mariners in 2002-03, is batting .213 with one homer in 27 games for Triple-A Omaha. In 74 major league games, Ugueto batted .214 with one homer.
Cummings has a 3.86 ERA in seven appearances for Triple-A Memphis this season, striking out 12 in 14 innings.
Pressley, a 6-foot-6 225-pound first baseman, is batting .325 with a .521 slugging percentage and four homers for Double-A Wichita.
05/13/05 18:08 EDT
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.