List of Major League Baseball players suspended for performance-enhancing drugs

This policy strengthened baseball's pre-existing ban on controlled substances, including steroids, which has been in effect since 1991.

[3] Players are ordered by the announced date of their suspension, placed in the appropriate table per their MLB experience and roster status at the time they were suspended.

This table lists players with prior MLB experience who, at the time of their suspension, were in Minor League Baseball or were a free agent.

This table lists players who, at the time of their suspension, were in Minor League Baseball with no prior MLB experience.

This table lists players with prior MLB experience who, at the time of their suspension, were in a baseball league not affiliated with MLB, such as Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan or KBO League in Korea.

Ryan Franklin was suspended in 2005.
Clay Hensley was suspended 15 games in 2005.
While playing for the New York Mets in 2006 Guillermo Mota was suspended for 50 games.
In 2007, Jorge Sosa was suspended 50 games.
At the end of the 2007 season, Mike Cameron was suspended for 25 games, effective the next season.
Jay Gibbons was suspended at the end of the 2008 season.
J. C. Romero was suspended for 50 games in 2009.
Manny Ramírez was suspended under Major League Baseball's drug policy in 2009 and 2011.
In 2009, Pablo Ozuna was suspended 50 games while in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
Jenrry Mejía was the first player to violate MLB's drug policy three times.