Dee Gordon went 1 for 4 as Miami swept the Dodgers with a 5-3 win Thursday night, then was slapped with an 80 game suspension:

Miami Marlins second baseman Dee Gordon has been suspended 80 games without pay, effective immediately, for violating MLB’s performance-enhancing drug policy, the league said early Friday.

The speedy second baseman tested positive for the performance-enhancing substances exogenous testosterone and clostebol, MLB said.

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It also comes in the first season of Barry Bonds‘ tenure as Marlins hitting coach. Bonds’ legacy has been tainted by questions of PED use as a player.

He also had Mark McGwire as a coach in Los Angeles, and that’s where his upturn starts.

Christina Kahrl sums up the disappointment in Gordon’s actions:

First, it’s glum news because Gordon’s breakthrough last season was initially interpreted as one of those bits of feel-good redemption the game gives us as fans and players like Gordon all the time. A change of scenery, a second chance, the opportunity to show people what you can do, that was all apparently earned last season because of what Gordon did on the field. This isn’t merely some comfortable narrative we’re chucking, but a big portion of a person’s life.

Second, I say that not to apologize for Gordon and his apparent PED use. He’ll have to deal with that for rest of his career, starting with when he comes back from his suspension July 28, in the Marlins’ 102nd game. Since Gordon is fresh off signing a five-year, $50 million extension that covers him through 2020, I expect few will weep for him. Because we don’t know — yet, if indeed we ever will — when he started using them, we can’t usefully speculate about their impact on his performance. Was it just this season? Or did it start in 2015 as part of push for big money in Miami? Or in 2014, when he had his first full productive season with the Dodgers? From the outside, it looks bad. Inside the organization, it probably feels worse.

I wonder at some point if a team will bring a fraud suit against a player for signing a contract after PED use helped them win a big contract? I doubt it would work, since testing and punishment is built into the system. Looking at Gordon’s career, the most likely explanation is that Gordon started using in 2014, and managed to get around the tests until now. After all, Alex Rodriguez was suspended despite never failing a test.