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Report: A-Rod tested positive in '03
      02/07/09 10:09 AM

I have only one question. Why was nothing said about this in 2003?



http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090207&content_id=3806844&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
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NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids during his 2003 American League MVP season with the Texas Rangers, four sources independently told Sports Illustrated in a report published Saturday.

Rodriguez's name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball's 2003 survey testing, according to a report on SI.com. That testing was conducted as part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association to determine if MLB needed to impose random drug testing for the '04 season.

When approached by Sports Illustrated on Thursday at a gym in Miami, Rodriguez reportedly declined to discuss his 2003 test results.

"You'll have to talk to the union," Rodriguez said. When asked if there was an explanation for his positive test, he said, "I'm not saying anything."

While MLB's drug policy has expressly prohibited the use of steroids without a valid prescription since 1991, there were no penalties for a positive test in 2003. The list of the 104 players who tested positive remains under seal in California.

SI.com reported that two sources familiar with the evidence that the government has gathered in its investigation of steroid use in baseball and two other sources with knowledge of the testing results said that Rodriguez is one of the 104 players identified as having tested positive, in his case for testosterone and an anabolic steroid known by the brand name Primobolan.

The SI.com report also indicated, citing three Major League players, that Rodriguez was tipped by MLBPA chief operating officer Gene Orza in early September 2004 that he would be tested later that month. Rodriguez declined to respond to SI when asked about the warning Orza allegedly provided him.

When Orza was asked on Friday in the union's New York City office about the tipping allegations, he told SI, "I'm not interested in discussing this information with you."

John Hart -- the Texas Rangers' general manager during the 2003 season and now a senior advisor with the club -- appeared on the MLB Network on Saturday, saying that he was saddened by the report but not completely surprised.

"I think in the climate that we have today, you don't have much shock anymore," Hart said. "Obviously Alex probably is the best player in baseball. This has always been a special talent and the guy has been putting up Hall of Fame numbers since the day he showed up in the big leagues. It saddens me. I've been in the game for almost 40 years and it hurts a little bit, if in fact this is true."

Hart -- who served as Texas' GM from November 2001 through October 2005 -- said that he believes Rodriguez will be impacted by the SI report as the Yankees' Spring Training camp prepares to open next week.

"Alex is a great kid, he's got a conscience and loves the game of baseball," Hart said. "I think, if anything, Alex tries to be a pleaser in a lot of ways. Looking up at what he's done and his career, I think it's going to affect him. He has the ability at times to tune it out, but he's in a huge media market there in New York.

"It's going to be a huge story, Spring Training is right around the corner, and you know what's going to happen when you show up at camp. I think it's going to be a little bit of an issue."

The revelations concerning Rodriguez follow information that was obtained through Sen. George Mitchell's 20-month investigation into the use of performance-enhancing substances in Major League Baseball. In many ways, the SI report helps to validate the credibility of the Mitchell Report document.

At the time of the Report's December 2007 release, Mitchell advised that the document was not intended to name names, but to paint an accurate picture of the flaws that existed prior to 2004 in baseball's testing program. In subsequent actions, much of what was problematic has been addressed.

Page 24 of the Mitchell Report reads: "Concerns have been raised about the collection procedures used, including allegations that some players received advance notice of testing." The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Barry Bonds' former personal trainer, Greg Anderson, received notice that Bonds would be tested in late May or early June 2004. Bonds was tested on May 28 and June 4 of that season.

In compiling the Report, the Mitchell Commission investigated the allegations that players received advance notice of tests in 2004. Mitchell interviewed personnel from Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc., the company responsible for sample collection under the Major League Baseball joint drug program, but representatives denied that they provided advance notice to Bonds or anyone else.

The MLBPA had agreed to begin anonymous survey testing in 2003, for the purposes of determining the scope of the steroids problem in baseball. No penalties would be carried, but more than 5 percent of big league players tested positive, triggering real steroids testing to begin in 2004.

In April 2004, federal agents seized records from two private firms involved in the 2003 survey testing -- Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc. and Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Those warrants sought drug testing records and samples for 10 Major League players connected with the investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO).

The agents seized data that could determine the identities of 104 Major League players who tested positive during the 2003 "survey testing" -- tests which were intended to remain strictly confidential, with names known only to the lab that conducted them.

In response to the government's actions, MLB and the MLBPA cut a deal. MLB postponed testing of those 104 players until the union notified them that they had tested positive in 2003 and were vulnerable to federal search warrants.

According to the Mitchell Report, Mitchell wrote that between August and September 2004, MLB's executive vice president of labor relations Rob Manfred pressed Orza to notify the players as soon as possible so that they could be tested. By September 2004, all players had been informed.

But one player told Mitchell he received advance notice from Orza that the next round of testing would occur within two weeks. Mitchell could not reveal the player's identity, but confessed steroids dealer Kirk Radomski wrote this year that the player was David Segui.

The program required that each player be tested only once during the 2004 season, and Mitchell wrote that other players may have received similar notice. The Mitchell Commission looked into allegations of other players receiving advance notice, but was unable to include additional confirmation.

SI.com's report is not the first time that Rodriguez has been connected to allegations concerning MLB's drug policy. Each time, Rodriguez has unequivocally denied having used steroids, human growth hormone or any other performance-enhancing substance.

"I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field," Rodriguez told CBS' Katie Couric in December 2007, shortly after the Mitchell Report's release. "I've always been a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work as I've done since I was a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level. So, no, [I never was tempted]."

Asked in that "60 Minutes" interview if he witnessed steroid use or had suspicions, Rodriguez responded, "You hear a lot of things. I mean, I came up in 1993. And you heard whispers from the '80s and '90s. But I never saw anything. I never had raw evidence. And, quite frankly, I was probably a little bit too naïve when I first came up to understand the magnitude of all this."

Rodriguez's first comments of Spring Training 2008 raised eyebrows when he told reporters that he was tested "nine or 10 times" for performance-enhancing drugs in '07.

That throwaway remark sent enough red flags up that Rodriguez released a statement later that evening, clarifying that he had exaggerated the number of tests to prove a point and wasn't being specific.

Under current drug testing rules, players must be tested at least twice during the season. There are also provisions for random testing -- though it is unlikely Rodriguez would have undergone that many tests, unless he flunked a test for a stimulant. That would have subjected him to six additional unannounced tests over the following year.

A first positive test for a stimulant is not subject to discipline and is not announced. Rodriguez said then that he has never failed a test that would subject him to additional testing.

Jose Canseco's 2008 book, "Vindicated," also alleged that the former big league slugger introduced Rodriguez to a known steroids supplier identified only as "Max" in the late 1990s.

Canseco did not claim to have seen Rodriguez use performance-enhancing drugs, but wrote that he "did everything but inject the guy myself." His motives were clouded, however, when Canseco freely admitted that he "hates" Rodriguez and it was revealed Canseco and Rodriguez were at odds over a personal matter.

Rodriguez side-stepped questions on the subject in advance of the book's release, saying that it was "over, as far as I'm concerned," and declining further comment.

It has been yet another tumultuous period for Rodriguez, who is entering the second season of his new 10-year, $275 million contract with the Yankees -- one that could pay him more than $300 million if he becomes baseball's all-time home run king. Two sources familiar with Rodriguez's contract told SI.com that there is no language about steroids in the contract that would put Rodriguez at risk of losing money.

Last week, excerpts surfaced from Joe Torre's book "The Yankee Years," in which it is revealed Rodriguez was referred to as "A-Fraud" in the clubhouse during the 2004 season.




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