Porcello says Wright owes Red Sox explanation after PED ban

Boston Red Sox right-hander Rick Porcello has long been critical of players using performance-enhancing drugs, and his opinion has not changed now that teammate Steven Wright has received an 80-game PED suspension.

Porcello believes that Wright owes the clubhouse an explanation for his failed drug test and subsequent ban. As of Thursday, the knuckleballer had yet to step forward to address the team as a whole.

"It doesn’t change," Porcello said, according to Chris Cotillo of MassLive. "I feel the same way that I felt in the past."

The veteran hurler called for harsher penalties in 2016.

Wright is the first Red Sox major-leaguer to be suspended under the league's performance-enhancing drug policy since its inception in 2004, though minor-league infielder Michael Chavis was hit with a ban in 2018.