Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun faces the jury – MLB News
The Milwaukee Brewers’ outfielder Ryan Braun has reportedly pleaded his case in front of a three-person jury on Thursday, January 19. Reports also indicated that he has strongly denied to have ever taken any performance-enhancing drug.
Whatever decision the jury makes at the end, they will decide the fate of this exceptionally talented player, also scheduled to deliver a speech on Saturday after accepting the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
Reportedly, the jury consists of Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball vice president of labor relations, Shyam Das who is an independent arbiter and Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Michael Weiner.
While the hearing has taken place last night, there is no word on whether or not it will continue on Friday and that if their decision will be made public before Saturday. Like mentioned earlier, Braun is to deliver a speech on Saturday on an occasion which
the players eagerly await in their careers.
Fighting this suspension is extremely important for Ryan Braun. There are reasons that factor into it as the fact that he has shown phenomenal consistency over the last few years speaks volumes of what the player is actually capable of.
However, if the failed drug test proves to have even a modicum of truth in it, it will cause huge embarrassment to the player and raise the question over the possibility if he can perform throughout these years without taking these power-enhancing drugs.
As a newspaper reported that the drug that Braun tested was “insanely high, the highest ever for anyone who has ever taken a test, twice the level of the highest test ever taken”, there are indeed a lot of questions that can be answered at this stage for
any player of his calibre.
The reason why Braun will really want to prove his innocence is the negativity that it may eventually generate on the bright career of the player. Thus he is putting all efforts to substantiate his claim that he never had anything to do with performance
enhancing drugs. It will be a matter of time before it is seen what the jury thinks in this regard.
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