2 Dodgers minor league pitchers suspended

Two Dodgers minor league pitchers suspended for violating MLB drug policy

By Steve HensonAssistant Sports Editor

June 28, 2020 1:26 PM PT

Dodgers minor league pitchers Juan Idrogo and Reza Aleaziz were among four players suspended for violating MLB’s Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, the league announced Sunday.

Idrogo, who was suspended for 72 games, is a Venezuelan signed to a minor league contract a year ago at age 16. He spent the season in the Dominican Summer League.

Aleaziz, who was suspended for 50 games, was a 28th-round draft pick out of Oklahoma State in 2018. The 24-year-old right-hander was 4-0 last season with a 2.37 ERA in 25 relief appearances at Class-A Ogden and high Class-A Rancho Cucamonga.

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Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.