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San Francisco Giants sign 1st round pick OF Gary Brown
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Kendall Rogers of Yahoo Sports says that the San Francisco Giants have signed first round pick outfielder Gary Brown.
Brown, 21, was the 24th overall pick in the June 2011 Amateur Draft out of Cal State Fullerton. MLB.com says
“Speed is his best tool, and he can wreak havoc on the basepaths. He’s got more strength and power than it would seem, and while his approach is unorthodox, he’s got good overall hitting skills. Relatively new to the outfield, he’s come a long way in terms of his defensive skills in center.”
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Lenny Dykstra admits to using steroids while in the Major Leagues
Posted by: | Comments“I was like a pioneer for that stuff … The juice. I was like the very first to do that. Me and [Jose] Canseco,” former Major League outfielder Lenny Dykstra says in the book “The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane,” written by Randall Lane.
Dykstra admits in the book that he used performance enhancing drugs during this time with the Phillies.
“At first it wasn’t even illegal. Then, after a few years, I had to go to a doctor, and get a prescription,” Dykstra says in a book excerpt. “You know how I got my stuff? Just walking into a pharmacy, bro. It was as simple as that.”
Here’s another quote backing up his reasons for taking PEDs:
“You gotta understand, there were only 28 people who had my job in the whole world.” He was referring to the fact that there were only 28 Major League Baseball teams (there are now 30), and that each only had one starting centerfielder. “And thousands of people wanted those jobs, and every year, there were guys trying to take my job.
“So I needed to do anything I could to protect my job, take care of my family. Do you have any idea how much money was at stake? Do you?”
Lane eventually concluded that Dykstra stole $25 million from the Phillies since he could never live up to the four-year contract that he signed with the club before the 1995 season.
Information from Paul Hagen of Philly.com was used in this article.
Los Angeles Dodgers Manny Ramirez considered asking for drug exemption?
Posted by: | CommentsMichael S. Schmidt of the New York Times says Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez contemplated filing for a terapeutic-use exemption last season around the same time he was suspended 50-games for violating baseball’s drug policy.
Ramirez was suspended in 2009 for taking human chorionic gonadotropin, a drug used to treat low levels of testosterone, but is also used by bodybuilders and athletes to jump-start their bodies production of testosterone after they stop using steroids.
Ramirez’s agent, Scott Broas, ultimately decided not to ask for the medical exemption, but two months after Ramirez returned, the idea for seeking a medical waiver was resurrected. GM Ned Colletti and other Dodgers personnel discussed if Ramirez had enough of a medical problem to obtain an exemption for a testosterone-boosting drug.
There were 115 exemptions issued last season to players. All but seven received a diagnosis of attention deficit disorder (ADD). Two players received exemptions for drugs to boost their testosterone levels.
There is a fine line for medical exemptions since some players actually need the drugs for medical purposes, while users use it as a back-door to consume a performance enhancing substance.
The Roger Clemens Soap Opera Continues…
Posted by: | CommentsIn the last episode of “Days of Roger Clemens’ lives”, we heard his ex-fling Mindy McCready describe lift off problems that Clemens suffered from.
The newest piece of mud to be thrown his way is that he paid his former personal trainer Brian McNamee for his training/injection services out of money from the Roger Clemens Foundation. McNamee told authorities investigating Clemens for perjury that the payments were made from the Roger Clemens Foundation from 1998-2001, according to several people briefed on the investigation. McNamee, who claims he routinely injected Clemens with steroids during that time, said he was also paid in cash and personal checks.
Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin disputed McNamee’s claims, telling the newspaper the former trainer had again lied to federal authorities.
“Obviously, Roger never paid him for any drugs anytime and he never paid him out of the foundation for his training services at any time,” Hardin said. “The foundation’s records will show that.”
McNamee reportedly tried to find documents to support his accusations about the payments but couldn’t produce them.
Information from ESPN.com was used in this article.
Court rules Barry Bonds positive urine samples inadmissable
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The Los Angeles Times says that positive urine samples and other drug-test records that the government says shows that Barry Bonds knowingly used steroids was determined to be inadmissable in court. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on this today.
Barry Bonds is on trail on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about taking steroids and other banned substances.
Legal experts now believe the trial could be dropped now that crucial evidence has been excluded.
“When lawyers have invested a lot of time and emotional capital into a particular case, it is not easy to let go,” said University of San Francisco law professor Robert Talbot. “But it will be pretty hard for them to win. That was key evidence.” The lab results seized during a raid by federal agents impugned more than 100 professional baseball players.
Matthew Beck of Rotoinfo.com had conducted a telephone interview with controversial former baseball player Jose Canseco. We recommend that you read the article here, but here are a few excepts:
ROTOINFO: Who was your least favorite teammate to play with during the prime of your career?
JOSE CANSECO: When I was with the A’s it was probably Carney Lansford. The guy was really bland. He had no humor what so ever and was very critical of the other players on the team
ROTOINFO: Many players in the Hall of Fame had a major impact on the game because of the impact steroids had on the game of baseball. Do you feel you should be mentioned in the Hall of Fame for bringing the steroids situation to light?
JOSE CANSECO: It depends how you would define a Hall of Fame member. I think a lot is defined by the numbers a player puts up but also by what a player brings to the game and how they change the game. So hopefully in a way I am considered a Hall of Famer by bettering the game and getting steroids out in the open.
ROTOINFO: Commissioner Bud Selig says he had no clue about the steroids in baseball, and I don’t believe him for a second. If I heard about steroids in baseball, how is it possible he didn’t?
JOSE CANSECO: Commissioner Bud Selig is full of s**t. He is just outright lying and trying to protect himself by acting like nothing was going on. He acts like it was never brought to his attention in any form and pretends like he never suspected anything. I think the FBI did a prior investigation that brought it up to the commissioner’s attention that there was a problem with steroids in baseball and Selig and his staff just ignored it because the game was flourishing at the time.
ROTOINFO: It seems to most that Barry Bonds is being black balled form the game of baseball. Do you feel he deserves that?
JOSE CANSECO: The only individual that got black balled was me. I was out of the game at the age of 35 years old. Barry Bonds played well into his 40’s and was able to accomplish many feats, home run and slugging titles, on his way to making an incredible amount of money. If he was going to get black balled it would have happened years and years back. The obvious case of getting black balled was me at 35 years old and not being able to get a job in baseball. I don’t believe Bonds was black balled.
New York Yankees Minor Leaguer Amauri Sanit suspended 50 games for PEDs
Posted by: | CommentsAccording to the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (via Maury Brown of The Biz of Baseball), New York Yankees Minor League pitcher Amauri Sanit has been suspended for 50 games for testing positive for Mepentermine.
Sanit, a Cuban defector, has gone 1-2 with a 8.69 ERA over 12 games this year for Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes-Barre of the International League.
MLB to institute drug testing program in Dominican Republic
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aseball will institute a drug testing program for unsigned prospects of the Dominican Republic. The hope of the program is to reduce the use of prohibited substances and also reduce identity and age falsification.
This has been an issue as recent as the signing of Dominican Prospect Duanel Jones. Jones originally signed with the San Francisco Giants, but his contract was voided after he failed a team-administered drug test, according to Jorge Arangure Jr. in January 2010. At the time, the 16-year-old third baseman signed a $1.3 million contract.
He signed with the Padres last month for $900,000 and will serve a 50 game suspension once he starts to play professional ball.
With the addition of these drug testing programs, prospects such as Jones will be educated before they go down the wrong path.
New York Mets prospect Angel Calero suspended 50 games for drugs
Posted by: | CommentsAccording to the Associated Press
, New York Mets prospect Angel Calero has been suspended 50 games for testing positive for metabolites of Nandrolone.
Calero had been pitching for Class A St. Lucie. Through 2009, Calero has a 16-20 record with a 4.03 ERA in 60 Minor League games (49 starts).
Diamondbacks prospect Socrates Brito suspended 50 games for drugs
Posted by: | CommentsAccording to Steve Gilbert of MLB.com
, Arizona Diamondbacks prospect Socrates Brito has been suspended 50 games for the use of performance enhancing drugs.
The Associated Press adds that Brito tested positive for metabolites of Stanozolol and will serve his suspension immediately upon signing with a Major League organization.
Brito signed a contract with the Diamondbacks last month and his contract was voided.
