Matt Holliday wants two strikes and you?re out PED penalties

St. Louis Cardinals slugger Matt Holliday feels that the current penalties for performance-enhancing drug users are not deterring players from cheating, therefore harsher penalties are needed to help clean up the game. Holliday appeared on MLB Network Radio?s ?Inside Pitch? with Casey Stern and Jim Bowden Wednesday, the day after several top MLB players were implicated in an alleged drug scandal. ?I?d go first time (you get caught) you miss a full season, 162 games you?re out,? Holliday said, via The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ?And then the second time I think you are suspended for a lifetime with the eligibility after two years maybe to apply for reinstatement. That?s what I would do. I feel like that?s pretty harsh but I think that?s what we need. I think we need harsher penalties. I think that would be a good start.? Holliday said he was surprised that so many players risk getting caught despite the current suspensions in place. ?? I thought (a 50-game suspension) was pretty har

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