Erick Almonte is now the second player in the Brewers organization to have a drug ban reversed. Almonte, a minor league veteran for the Triple-A Nashville Sounds who played 16 games for the Brewers last year, revealed Monday that a 50-game suspension had been lifted by Major League Baseball after a B sample came back negative. "From May 29 to June 7 my days were pretty hard," Almonte said. "After 17 years of doing things properly, a failed test nearly blew all that. "I'm planning to be a coach soon and a suspension for violating the drug program would have been fatal to those aspirations." Almonte, 34, underwent a routine urine exam on May 4 before a game with the Sounds at Albuquerque.