 The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced Friday that free agent Minor League player Aaron Jackson has received a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a drug of abuse in violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. The suspension of Jackson will be effective immediately upon his signing with a new Club. In 2007, Jackson pitched in the Washington Nationals organization for Single-A Hagerstown of the South Atlantic League. Since mandatory drug testing was instituted, a total of 178 suspensions have been doled out across baseball for a total of 5,525 games. The following is a summary of drug violations, based upon The Biz of Baseball's detailed Drug Violations page: 20081 minor leaguers * 1 - PEDs * Eliezer Alfonzo was part of the Giants 40-man roster, but at the time of the suspension was playing at Triple-A Fresno 6 minor leaguers 3 - PEDs 1 - Failure to Test 1 - Human Growth Hormone 1 - Drug of Abuse 20078 major leaguers 5 - PEDs 3 - Stimulants (Neifi Perez twice) 29 minor leaguers 17 - PEDs 2 - Failure to Test 8 - Drug of Abuse 2 - Unknown (not identifed by MLB in release) 20063 major leaguers 3 - PEDs 24 minor leaguers 21 PEDs 3 - Drug of Abuse 6 Venezuelan Summer League 6 - PEDs 200512 major leaguers 12 - PEDs 90 minor leaguers 90 - PEDs Source: Major League Baseball. Business of Sports Network research
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