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"\"&lt;p&gt;Major League Baseball handed out its second steroids suspension&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nMonday, hitting Rockies outfielder Jorge Piedra with a 10-day&lt;br \\/&gt;\\npunishment.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Piedra, 25, joins Devil Rays outfielder Alex Sanchez as the first&lt;br \\/&gt;\\ntwo players on 40-man rosters to be suspended for steroid use under&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nMLB&amp;#8217;\\u2122s new steroids policy, adopted in the offseason. Piedra was on the&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nroster of Triple-A Colorado Springs, and his suspension leaves the Sky&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nSox with just two full-time outfielders in Choo Freeman and Brian&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nBuchanan. Utilityman Tim Olson and veterans such as Andy Tracy, Elvis&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nPena and Tom Wilson will also be pressed into outfield action.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Piedra made his major league debut last August and hit&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n.297\\/.340\\/.484 in 91 at-bats for the Rockies. He signed with the&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nDodgers in 1997 as a nondrafted free agent out of Notre Dame High in&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nSherman Oaks, Calif. The Dodgers traded him to the Cubs in 2000 in a&lt;br \\/&gt;\\ndeal involving Ismael Valdes, and the Rockies purchased his contract&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nfrom the Cubs in May 2002. In 667 career minor league games entering&lt;br \\/&gt;\\n2005, Piedra batted .298\\/.357\\/.476. He hit .334\\/.372\\/.557 last season&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nat Colorado Springs after posing a career-best 18 home runs for&lt;br \\/&gt;\\nDouble-A Tulsa in 2003.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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