Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Eric Thames hit his 12th home run of the year on Sunday afternoon. He skied a shot to right field that Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder John Jaso did not even look at. This was Thames’ first home run since Tuesday, April 25th. It had been his longest homer drought of the season. Despite that, Thames still finds a way to get tested. According to the USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, Thames has been tested five times by baseball already. When does the MLB’s Player Association need to step in? The answer is very soon if this continues.

Thames is probably the most open baseball athlete I’ve seen talk about testing. He’s not shy to let the media know that he’s been drug tested a bunch this season. He did it with the local media at the end of April and did again with a national reporter. That’s refreshing and perhaps opens eyes to people realizing these guys get tested all the time. That said, it leaves room for people to wonder about you. Many opposing teams want to say Thames is on something, and that’s the fault of the Major League Baseball.

MLB or their players assocation has done nothing when it comes to protecting Thames. Whether that is telling him to talk less about it or saying MLB needs to stop trying to find an answer with this athlete. According to ESPN, there were 5,188 in-season drug tests administered in 2015. If we do the quick math, it means that players got tested around seven times all season. Does this mean Thames is actually off the hook for the rest of the season and this story will be officially dead.

We all hope so.

Charlie.