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Earlier this season, Atlanta Braves star outfielder Jurickson Profar tested positive for a banned substance and was suspended for 80 games and the postseason this year.

Profar joins a long list of big leaguers who have tested positive for PEDs and will eventually return to the game as if nothing happened.

Former MLB All-Star Eric Hosmer pitched an interesting idea that he believes would clean up the game and help eliminate steroid usage in baseball.

“The only way that this game gets cleaned up and these guys don’t risk 80-game suspensions for another couple years on the back end is to take away guaranteed money,” Hosmer said on his “Diggin’ Deep” podcast. “If you tell me that I have $110 million on the line for these next three years and I could possibly lose that, I’m not even thinking (about risking a suspension). So, for me, I think that’s the only way to clean up the game in this way.”

Bob Nightengale of USA Today suggested a team’s medical staff could taint supplements in order to eliminate bad contracts from their payroll, which could lead to this idea not working whatsoever.

Still, Hosmer has a point. There’s a problem these players aren’t punished enough for cheating. Whether his solution is perfect isn’t the point. The problem is there, and the commissioner’s office needs to find a better solution.

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