Mets’ Robinson Cano forfeits $24m salary after failed doping test

MLB commissioner suspends infielder for entire 2021 season
Second failed drugs test leads to automatic suspension

All Robinson Cano needed to do to make $24m in 2021 was not take performance enhancing drugs or commit a major felony. He could only manage half of that bargain.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed on Wednesday that the New York Mets second baseman will miss the entire 2021 season after testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug stanozolol. The 38-year-old had already served an 80-game doping ban in 2018, and this second violation carries an automatic 162-game suspension.