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MLB upholds full-season suspension for Braves’ Jurickson Profar

Outfielder had appealed 162-game penalty for positive PED test.
Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar — pictured taking batting practice during spring training in February — will miss the season for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug after missing 80 games for PED use last season. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar — pictured taking batting practice during spring training in February — will miss the season for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug after missing 80 games for PED use last season. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)
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The Braves will officially be without Jurickson Profar for the 2026 season.

Major League Baseball suspended Profar on March 3 after he tested positive for exogenous testosterone. It was his second positive test for a performance-enhancing drug in a little more than 12 months. Profar was suspended for 80 games of the 2025 season after testing positive for human chorionic gonadotropin.

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Profar had appealed the latest suspension, but his suspension was upheld Thursday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution confirmed. Profar will also be ineligible for the 2026 postseason and must also forfeit his $15 million salary for this season. In 2025, Profar lost more than $5.1 million in salary for missing nearly half the campaign.

A 33-year-old from Curacao, Profar signed a three-year, $42 million contract with the Braves in January 2025 after an All-Star season with the Padres in 2024. Profar has played just 80 games for the Braves.

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