Miami New Times obtained a list of players provided performing enhancing drugs by Biogenesis:
Then check out the main column, where their real names flash like an all-star roster of professional athletes with Miami ties: San Francisco Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera, Oakland A’s hurler Bartolo Colón, pro tennis player Wayne Odesnik, budding Cuban superstar boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa, and Texas Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz. There’s even the New York Yankees’ $275 million man himself, Alex Rodriguez, who has sworn he stopped juicing a decade ago.
Read further and you’ll find more than a dozen other baseball pros, from former University of Miami ace Cesar Carrillo to Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal to Washington Nationals star Gio Gonzalez. Notable coaches are there too, including UM baseball conditioning guru Jimmy Goins.
Here’s the main evidence against Alex Rodriguez:
Yet there was his name, over and over again, logged as either “Alex Rodriguez,” “Alex Rod,” or his nickname at the clinic, “Cacique,” a pre-Columbian Caribbean chief. Rodriguez’s name appears 16 times throughout the records New Times reviewed.
Take, for instance, one patient list from Bosch’s 2009 personal notebook. It charts more than 50 clients and notes whether they received their drugs by delivery or in the office, how much they paid, and what they were taking.
There, at number seven on the list, is Alex Rodriguez. He paid $3,500, Bosch notes. Below that, he writes, “1.5/1.5 HGH (sports perf.) creams test., glut., MIC, supplement, sports perf. Diet.” HGH, of course, is banned in baseball, as are testosterone creams.
That’s not the only damning evidence against A-Rod, though. Another document from the files, a loose sheet with a header from the 19th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging and Aesthetic Medicine, lays out a full regimen under the name Cacique: “Test. cream… troches prior to workout… and GHRP… IGF-1… pink cream.”
IGF-1 is a banned substance in baseball that stimulates insulin production and muscle growth. Elsewhere in his notebook, Bosch spells out that his “troches,” a type of drug lozenge, include 15 percent testosterone; pink cream, he writes, is a complex formula that also includes testosterone. GHRP is a substance that releases growth hormones.
The article represents a thorough investigation. The fact that some of the clients listed above tested positive for PEDs lends credence to the story. I wonder, however, if MLB can take action against Alex and others short of a positive test? Here’s the language from the Joint Drug Prevention program:
A Player who tests positive for a Performance Enhancing Substance, or otherwise violates the Program through the use or possession of a Performance Enhancing Substance, will be subject to the discipline set forth below.
That seems vague enough that if MLB believes these books and spreadsheets, they can suspend Alex and others. So Alex may miss the whole season, part rehabilitating, part on a suspension. The Nationals might also take a big hit on Gio Gonzalez.
I’m having a hard time believing this guy. I highly doubt that many Major Leaguers are using PED’s, especially people like Gio Gonzalez.
OK, this part is odd:
“(There’s also an odd, handwritten letter by Bosch in his notebook that seems to refer to Cabrera’s suspension for elevated testosterone. Addressed to a “Juan,” Bosch rails against Cabrera, writing that “in helping him, I put my business and all my doctors at risk by fabricating patient charts and phony prescriptions.” He adds that the slugger should “man-up” and pay $9,000 he owes, adding, “I am on the ‘line’ here!!”)”
Tony sounds like a very sleazy character, yet some of his clients have been busted. It’s clear that he burnished and lied about his credentials (he’s not a doctor) so I could see him boasting about supplying PEDs to people he’s not actually supplying. But then there’s the statements from those who have used, and again the failed tests.
But hey, finally we have an actual investigative report into steroids in sports. Not hypocritical sermonizing, just straight investigation. And it only took 36 years from the 1975 Olympics East German women’s swim team.
I find it hard to believe that Arod with all his money would actually purchase the drugs himself under his own name. What are agents for ?. LOL.
There are actually more names than in the article that are being witheld for some reason.
The interesting thing is that most of these players have passed the MLB drug testing, which suggests as Comte alleges that steroid use is alive and well in MLB despite the testing.