Friday, January 18, 2008

The Infamous List


These are the players, both current and former, disclosed in The Mitchell Report, which investigated the use of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.

Manny Alexander
Chad Allen
Rick Ankiel
Mike Bell
David Bell
Marvin Benard
Gary Bennett Jr.
Larry Bigbie
Barry Bonds
Ricky Bones
Kevin Brown
Paul Byrd
Ken Caminiti
Mark Carreon
Jose Canseco
Jason Christiansen
Howie Clark
Roger Clemens
Paxton Crawford
Jack Cust
Brendan Donnelly
Chris Donnels
Lenny Dykstra
Bobby Estalella
Matt Franco
Ryan Franklin
Eric Gagne
Jason Giambi
Jeremy Giambi
Jay Gibbons
Troy Glaus
Juan Gonzalez
Jason Grimsley
Jose Guillen
Jerry Hairston Jr.
Matt Herges
Phil Hiatt
Glenallen Hill
Darren Holmes
Todd Hundley
Ryan Jorgensen
Wally Joyner
Mike Judd
David Justice
Chuck Knoblauch
Tim Laker
Mike Lansing
Paul Lo Duca
Nook Logan
Josias Manzanillo
Gary Matthews Jr.
Mark McGwire
Cody McKay
Kent Mercker
Bart Miadich
Hal Morris
Daniel Naulty
Denny Neagle
Rafael Palmeiro
Jim Parque
Andy Pettitte
Adam Piatt
Todd Pratt
Stephen Randolph
Adam Riggs
Armando Rios
Brian Roberts
John Rocker
F.P. Santangelo
Benito Santiago
Scott Schoeneweis
David Segui
Gary Sheffield
Mike Stanton
Ricky Stone
Miguel Tejada
Derrick Turnbow
Ismael Valdez
Mo Vaughn
Randy Velarde
Ron Villone
Fernando Vina
Rondell White
Todd Williams
Jeff Williams
Matt Williams
Steve Woodard
Kevin Young
Gregg Zaun

Dirt Off the DL


Among those named in former Senator George Mitchell’s explosive report detailing the habitual and frequent use of steroids among the sport’s brightest stars, are Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte.

The most stunning revelations within the report pertain to Cy Young winner and future Hall of Famer, Roger Clemens. Mitchell acutely chronicles Clemens’ alleged use of performance-enhancers, based on testimony from his longtime friend and trainer, Brian McNamee. Clemens was targeted in nearly nine pages of the report, with 82 references by name.

McNamee told Mitchell that Clemens took performance-enhancing drugs during the 1998, 2000, and 2001 seasons. He testified that the drug Winstorl was administered in 1998, human growth hormone in 2000, and “Sustanon or Deca-Durabolin” in 2001.

Within the report’s pages, McNamee also admits to “injecting the drugs into Clemens’ buttocks on various occasions.”

Pettitte, according to the report, initially inquired about human growth hormone to McNamee during the 2001-02 off-season, to which McNamee said he discouraged him from using. Pettitte however, suffered an elbow injury early the following season, where he asked McNamee again about HGH.

The report then states that McNamee traveled to Tampa, where Pettitte was rehabilitating, and “injected Pettitte with human growth hormone that McNamee obtained from Radomski on two to four occasions.”

In it’s totality, the report names 88 players, both past and present, including seven MVP’s.

According to Newsday, “There are also no prominent Red Sox players mentioned in the report, which is at least somewhat curious because Mitchell refused to resign from his role as part of the Red Sox management team during this investigation. Mitchell denied giving any special treatment to the Red Sox because of his title.”

"There is no evidence of bias or special treatment to Red Sox in this report, or anybody else, because there isn't any," Mitchell said. "That had no effect."

Hmmm… makes me wonder…

Read the entire report here: http://files.mlb.com/mitchrpt.pdf