TORONTO — Sometimes, it’s just not your year.

In the midst of just about everything going wrong, it’s looking like 2024 could be simply one of those years for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Losers of six straight as they watch their highest-paid player put up the league’s lowest qualified OPS, things took another negative turn Sunday when prospect Orelvis Martinez was suspended 80 games for violating MLB’s performance-enhancing drugs policy.

The league’s announcement came less than 48 hours after Martinez, the club’s top hitting prospect and No. 2 overall in the system behind Ricky Tiedemann, made the first appearance of his career in Cleveland.

It matters little that Martinez claims the failed test was thanks to a fertility drug (this has been used before, most famously by Manny Ramirez).

What matters is one of the club’s prized prospects will sit idle until Sept. 23 as the latest negative storyline in a season........

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