LOS ANGELES — Major League Baseball suspended Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar on Monday after he tested positive for the performance-enhancing substance human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). It’s a fertility drug often taken after steroids, and it’s the same drug that Manny Ramirez was suspended 50 games for using in 2009.

Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has been suspended 80 games without pay after testing positive for the banned substance Clomiphene (HCG), Major Leagu

Braves manager Brian Snitker had just finished his breakfast Monday morning, when he learned the team will spend the next three months without the suspended Jurickson Profar. Suddenly, losing four straight to begin the season wasn’t the veteran skipper’s chief concern.