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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Outfielder Marlon Byrd, a free agent after being released by the Boston Red Sox on June 12, has been suspended 50 games after a positive drug test.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ESPN's T.J. Quinn reports on Twitter that Byrd's positive test came for a drug used to deal with the side effects of steroids, not a performance-enhancing drug itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[tweet https://twitter.com/MLB_PR/status/217347213779668995]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[tweet https://twitter.com/TJQuinnESPN/status/217348903387926528]\nByrd, 34, has spent 11 years in the major leagues. This season, he split his time between the Chicago Cubs and the Red Sox. He hit .210 with one home run in 47 games with the two teams.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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