When the league suspended Alvarado in May, Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said Alvarado told the team he was taking a supplement for weight loss. He did not go through the proper protocol to see if it was approved. “I took a drug that I didn’t think was contaminated,” Alvarado said in Spanish.

Eleven weeks after leaving town upon receiving an 80-game suspension for taking a performance-enhancing drug, Alvarado broke his silence on Instagram.

Two weeks ahead of his 80-game suspension coming to an end, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher José Alvarado has issued a statement apologizing for his performance-enhancing drug usage.

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It was 30 minutes after Duran left the mound, and the Phillies readied to head home. Taijuan Walker sat at his locker and whistled Duran’s warmup song. Duran overheard him and smiled. A few minutes later, Alec Bohm whistled it as he left the clubhouse.