Yankees' A-Rod linked to recent purchasing of PEDs; MLB investigating: report
By KEN DAVIDOFF
Last Updated: 11:20 AM, January 29, 2013
Posted: 10:06 AM, January 29, 2013
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An explosive report in the Miami New Times on Tuesday asserts that Alex Rodriguez purchased illegal performance-enhancing drugs from an anti-aging clinic in South Florida over the prior four years.
The newspaper obtained records from Biogenesis, a clinic that has closed and was owned by Anthony Bosch, the son of a prominent Florida physician who was linked with slugger Manny Ramirez when baseball suspended Ramirez for illegal PED usage in 2009. According to the newspaper, the records repeatedly mention A-Rod, as well as many other well-known baseball players. A-Rod, of course, confessed in 2009 to using illegal PEDs while with Texas from 2001 through 2003 and has repeatedly said that he hasnt used anything since.
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The Yankees will not act upon this information until Major League Baseball vets it, according to an industry source, and that figures to take a while. This could lead to A-Rod getting suspended by baseball if this evidence is able to be obtained and authenticated, but thats quite a few steps away.
MLB released a statement Tuesday in light of the report and said they are in the "midst of an active investigation."
"We have the best and most stringent drug testing policy in professional sports, we continue to work with our doctors and trainers to learn what they are seeing day-to-day and we educate our players about the games unbending zero-tolerance approach," the statement read.
"We remain fully committed to following all leads and seeking the appropriate outcomes for all those who use, purchase and are involved in the distribution of banned substances, which have no place in our game. We are in the midst of an active investigation and are gathering and reviewing information. We will refrain from further comment until this process is complete.
And what is this information? According to the clinics records obtained by the newspaper, A-Rod -- identified in the records as Alex Rodriguez, Alex Rod or Cacique, the name of a pre-Columbian Caribbean chief -- paid $3,500 in 2009 for what is identified as 1.5/1.5 HGH (sports perf.) creams test., glut., MIC, supplement, sports perf. Diet."
Both human growth hormone and testosterone cream are banned by baseball.
Another record links Cacique to IGF-1, a banned substance in baseball that stimulates insulin production and muscle growth.
A-Rods infamous cousin Yuri Sucart, who was purported to be A-Rods drug mule from 2001 to 2003, is also identified on the records, having paid Bosch $500 for a weeklong supply of HGH in 2009.
Another page from a notebook labeled 2012 features this wording: He is paid through April 30th. He will owe May 1 $4,000... I need to see him between April 13-19, deliver troches, pink cream, and... May meds. Has three weeks of Sub-Q (as of April)."
Elsewhere in his notebooks, the newspaper reports, Bosch writes that "Sub-Q" refers to his mixture of HGH, IGF-1, and other drugs.
Other baseball players identified in the clinics records are former Yankees Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon, both of whom were suspended from baseball last year; Washington pitcher Gio Gonzalez and Texas outfielder Nelson Cruz.
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