{"id":67685,"date":"2024-03-08T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=67685"},"modified":"2024-03-08T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:02:20","slug":"mlb-suspends-reds-noelvi-marte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/08\/mlb-suspends-reds-noelvi-marte\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Suspends Reds Noelvi Marte 80 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/24\/tony-kemp-cincinnati-reds\/\" target=\"_self\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>\u00a0enter the 2024 season with a young, upstart roster that could make some noise in the winnable National League Central. The Reds are coming off a 2023 that saw them finish 82-80 just one year after losing 100 games in 2022. They made a significant jump in 2023 and looked to improve even more in 2024. One of those talents that Cincinnati was counting on was infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marteno01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noelvi Mart\u00e9<\/a>, a promising 22-year-old prospect who made his major league debut late last year. Unfortunately for the Reds, Marte will not be available for the first 80 games of the 2024 season.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h2>MLB Suspends Reds Noelvi Marte 80 Games<\/h2>\r\n<p>MLB has handed Marte an 80-game suspension without pay because of a substance known as Boldenone. Marte won&#8217;t be eligible to come back until June.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reds infielder Noelvi Marte suspended 80 games for PED violation<\/p>\r\n\u2014 Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1766212388158591271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MLB announced that Reds INF Noelvi Marte has received an 80-game suspension without pay after testing positive for Boldenone, a performance enhancing substance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwAyI5u0K4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LwAyI5u0K4<\/a><\/p>\r\n\u2014 Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Feinsand\/status\/1766212262082015422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Noelvi Marte can return to the complex for extended spring training and the end of the month and will have minor league rehab assignment before he returns, per the Reds.<\/p>\r\n\u2014 Charlie Goldsmith (@CharlieG__) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlieG__\/status\/1766217258484072907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>Marte batted .316 with 3 home runs and drove in 15 RBIs in 35 games in 2023. On MLB Pipeline, Marte is listed as the best prospect in the Reds farm system. Overall, MLB Pipeline ranks him as the 21st-best prospect in all of MLB. With Marte now out for most of his rookie season, the Reds will likely turn to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/candeje01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeimer Candelario<\/a> at third base. Candelario hit a career-high 22 home runs last season for the Chicago Cubs and Washington Nationals. His power should be a factor at the hitter-friendly Great American Ballpark.<\/p>\r\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Kareem Elgazzar-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds\u00a0enter the 2024 season with a young, upstart roster that could make some noise in the winnable National League Central. The Reds are coming off a 2023 that saw them finish 82-80 just one year after losing 100 games in 2022. They made a significant jump in 2023 and looked to improve even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4682,"featured_media":67968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,28,1071],"tags":[1297,5847],"class_list":["post-67685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reds","category-mlb","tag-jeimer-candelario","tag-noelvi-marte"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}