Chris Colabello is the 2nd player suspended for Turinabol in 2016

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It’s been a big two weeks for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. On April 14, Phillies’ pitcher Daniel Stumpf was suspended 80 games for testing positive for Turinabol, the retail name of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. Just eight days later, on Friday, Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello was suspended for the same drug for 80 games without pay, as well. In a statement released through the Major League Baseball Players Association, Colabello vehemently denies he did anything wrong, and has no idea how this happened. Stumpf, who debuted in the majors just this year, did not release a statement, but the Phillies released one saying that they were “disappointed” about the situation, which sounds eerily like what a parent would say.

So what is Turnibol? The Canadian Press broke it down in detail. It’s a steroid that’s best used to assist recovery, like, say, from a long and grueling 162-game baseball season. It originated in East Germany in the 1960s, and in the 70s and 80s was given to East German Olympic athletes. However, it’s apparently gone out of style since then and is hard to find these days. Additionally, it’s not injected like many of the steroids used today -- it’s taken orally. That makes accidental ingestion possible, but also not terribly likely. Accidental or unintentional ingestion is what Colabello’s statement is pointing toward, and Big League Stew’s Israel Fehr reported that Colabello could be joining forces with UFC fighter Frank Mir, who was also recently suspended for Turnibol (and similarly has no idea how he ingested it), to figure out what happened.

One of the biggest questions to come from these suspensions is: why is this happening now? Turinabol is an old steroid, it’s not a fancy test dodging drug that some players take today (or attempt to). It will show up on tests, and taking it when you could be tested is not a smart thing to do. Although, to be fair, taking any PEDs when they’re banned is already not a smart thing to do. There could possibly be more to this story, and with Colabello and Mir making a public issue of their positive tests, we probably haven’t heard the last of this.