Melky Cabrera did the right thing yesterday – pulling out of the NL batting race. (See BBRT’s September 20 post for more on this issue.) It was an honorable course of action and a giant (no pun intended) step toward vindication. Now, it’s up to MLB and commissioner Bud Selig. While Cabrera requested disqualification from the batting title (due to his 50-game PED suspension), making it happen took Selig’s one-season-only (2012) rules change to disqualify players who “served a drug suspension for violating the Joint Drug Program” from the individual batting, slugging and on-bases percentages championships. BBRT says “Thanks, Melky, for stepping up to the plate on this one” … and urges MLB to make the rules change a permanent one, providing baseball another asset in its efforts to remove PEDs from the game.
