Luis Gonzalez, a Venezuelan infielder with Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants, was banned Monday for one year by Japan's professional baseball governing body for doping. Gonzalez, a former US Major League player for the Colorado Rockies, has tested positive for clobenzorex, amphetamine and parahydroxyamfetamine -- all banned in Japanese baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) said. 'He categorically denied taking drugs. But these substances cannot be created in vivo,' Kazuo Hasegawa, NPB chief secretary, told a news conference. 'We cannot help but assume that they have been taken from outside. We have taken the maximum possible action.'
Luis Gonzalez, a Venezuelan infielder with Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants, was banned Monday for one year by Japan's professional baseball governing body for doping. Gonzalez, a former US Major League player for the Colorado Rockies, has tested positive for clobenzorex, amphetamine and parahydroxyamfetamine -- all banned in Japanese baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) said. 'He categorically denied taking drugs. But these substances cannot be created in vivo,' Kazuo Hasegawa, NPB chief secretary, told a news conference. 'We cannot help but assume that they have been taken from outside. We have taken the maximum possible action.'
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