Author: Dr. Steroids

The Mitchell report has been released. You can view the PDF report at MLB.com. As expected, the report is a lengthy 409 pages. The following table lists all the players, 88 in total, linked to performance enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report. The page numbers represent the page number in the actual Mitchell Report, while the numbers in parentheses indicate the page number in the PDF version linked to above. The mention of Sammy Sosa seems very out of place. Mitchell didn’t cite any evidence against Sosa, but included his name as an example of a players sent a letter…

A list of names is now circling the internet (see below). Deadspin posted this list. Of course, they can’t verify whether or not it’s completely accurate. In the last hour, we have been forwarded a list of players mentioned in the Mitchell Report by about 25 different people. Is this list substantiated? No. Is it from an MLB official? No. Do we have any reason to believe it’s anything but random bunk? No. But it’s what’s making the rounds today, and we’re less than three hours away, and if the list is wrong, we’ll know real soon. David Pinto has…

Barry Bonds appeared as promised in a San Francisco court December 7 and pleaded not guilty to four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. Bonds appeared with 6 attorneys including recent additions, Cristina Arguedas and Allan Ruby. While the maximum sentence for the charges against Bonds is 30 years, legal experts told ESPN that Bonds is facing 2½ years. The 30 years “would apply to Bonds only if he had a long criminal history, which he does not.” According to T.J. Quinn and Mark Fainaru-Wada, now reporting for ESPN, expected witnesses in the trial include Bonds’…

Jay Gibbons and Jose Guillen were each suspended 15 days by Major League Baseball for violating baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Neither player has failed a MLB mandated test. The suspensions will take place at the beginning of the 2008 season. Instead Guillen and Gibbons were linked to anti-aging clinics illegally distributing anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (hGH) to players. Their connection to the clinics was turned up by an Albany based grand jury investigating anti-aging clinics and wellness centers providing drugs with bogus prescriptions from doctors. Gary Matthews Jr., Rick Ankiel, Troy Glaus and Scott Schoeneweis…

Free agent pitcher Dan Serafini was suspended 50 games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug. Serafini signed with the Colorado Rockies in July after spending three and a half years pitching in Japan. He appeared in three games and logged only one-third or an inning pitched in 2007. Serafini blamed his positive test on substances prescribed to him by a doctor in Japan. “While trying to accelerate the healing process of these injuries, I took substances that were prescribed for me by a doctor in Japan. What I did not know at the time was…

Barry Bonds was indicted on three counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for lying to a grand jury about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. The charges, of course, stem from his BALCO grand jury testimony in December 2003. The maximum sentence for the charges combined is 30 years. The Smoking Gun has Bonds’ Indictment in full. The indictment contains a summary of the evidence the government obtained before listing verbatim exchanges from his grand jury testimony in December 2003. The parts the government believes to be lies, 19 in total, are underlined. The following are excerpts…

Three more players were linked to anabolic steroid and human growth hormone purchases through the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center in Florida. Two former players, Matt Williams and Ismael Valdez, along with current player Jose Guillen are said to have purchased performance-enhancing drugs in the article written by Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada of BALCO fame. According to the San Francisco Chronicle report, Guillen is said to have ordered more than $19,000 worth of drugs from the anti-aging clinic between May 2002 and June 2005. In February 2007, he was quoted by ESPN as saying he had been approached about using…

In an interview with Jim Grey for MSNBC’s ‘Countdown,’ Barry Bonds said he would boycott the Hall of Fame if they display his record breaking 756th home run ball marked with an asterisk. On September 25, fashion design Mark Ecko announced that the public had voted to brand the ball with an asterisk and offer it to the Hall of Fame, one of the options from his online poll. The Hall of Fame, noting their status as a non-profit organization, agreed to accept and display the ball however it came. Ecko has said he and the Hall were working together…

Just five days ago Cleveland Indians pitcher, Paul Byrd, helped his team beat the Boston Red Sox giving the Indians a 3-1 series lead. Now he finds himself on the front page again, this time linked to nearly $25 000 worth of human growth hormone. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Byrd was prescribed and sent more than 1000 vials of human growth hormone and hundreds of syringes between August 2002 and January 2005 while a member of the Royals and Braves. Receipts showed Byrd spent $24 850 on hGH prescriptions through the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center, an anti-aging clinic…

Yet another Major League Baseball player has been linked to Signature Pharmacy. New York Mets’ reliever, Scott Schoeneweis, was reportedly sent multiple shipments of anabolic steroids from an internet pharmacy at the center of a major performance-enhancing drug distribution ring involving bogus prescriptions dispensed over the internet. According to the ESPN, Schoeneweis received multiple shipments of stanozolol for sale and/or testosterone between May 2003 and June 2004 while he was a member of the Chicago White Sox. The drugs were prescribed by Ramon Scruggs of the New Hope Health Center in Tustin, Calif, the same doctor that prescribed steroids to…