Yankees’ Rodriguez to Miss Entire 2014 Season in Drug Suspension

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Alex Rodriguez will sit out the entire 2014 season for violating Major League Baseball’s performance-enhancing-drug policy, after an independent arbitrator reduced his original 211-game ban on an appeal.

An arbitration panel led by Fredric Horowitz yesterday notified both MLB and its players union that it reduced the longest drug-related suspension in MLB history, given last year to the New York Yankees third baseman. Rodriguez is the sport’s highest-paid player.