Did MLB Players Receive the Right Punishments?

The league handed down 50-game suspensions for 12 playersover allegations that they purchased performance-enhancing drugs from the Biogenesis clinic. Earlier reports said that the players could have been ordered to sit out for as many as 100 games.

But the punishment is likely to be harsher for another player, as New York Yankees infielder Alex Rodriguez faces a suspension for 211 regular season games as well as any postseason games his team may play in this year.

"Rodriguez's discipline under the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program is based on his use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including Testosterone and human Growth Hormone, over the course of multiple years," MLB said in a statement, The Sporting News reported Monday.

“As a social institution with enormous social responsibilities, Baseball must do everything it can to maintain integrity, fairness and a level playing field,” said MLB Commissioner Bud Selig in a written statement, according to the Associated Press. “We are committed to working together with players to reiterate that performance-enhancing drugs will not be tolerated in our game.”

Rodriguez is expected to appear his suspension; the 12 players set to sit out for 50 games agreed not to appeal.

Fear not, Atlanta Braves fans—no members of the ball club were involved in the investigation.

Did Major League Baseball officials make the right call on these suspensions? Do any of these suspensions go too far, or not far enough? Tell us in the comments.