Steroids in Baseball

Barry Larkin, the former short stop for the Cincinnati Red from 1996 to 2004, was among the top players of his era. Larkin’s era happened to coincide with the so-called ‘steroid era’ in Major League Baseball (MLB). [Read more…]

Mark McGwire previously admitted using anabolic steroids a few years ago. The admission was widely considered a precondition for his return to baseball as a batting coach. During a recent appearance on the Dan Patrick Radio Show, McGwire acknowledged that the decision to use steroids as a mistake. But at the same time, McGwire believed steroids made him a better person. [Read more…]

Boys and girls, it pays to use anabolic steroids in Major League Baseball (MLB). It doesn’t matter if you get caught. It doesn’t matter if attempt to coverup your steroid use by fraudulent means. Melky Cabrera’s $16 million payday is proof that the ends justify the means when it comes to high-level performance. [Read more…]

Mark McGwire has agreed to be the new hitting coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers next season after spending two seasons coaching with the Saint Louis Cardinals organization. The question of his steroid use still comes up even though it’s been over a decade since he dabbled with steroids as a Major League Baseball player. But it seems that McGwire has overcome the steroid stigma – at least when it comes to continued employment within the sport baseball. [Read more…]

The Oakland Athletics re-signed pitcher Bartolo Colon to a one year contract worth $3-6 million. Colon failed the steroid test for testosterone in August 2012. He was suspended for fifty games under the rules of Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment steroid testing program. [Read more…]

Paul Lo Duca, a former Major League Baseball player, has pointed the finger at his former agents for hooking him up with a steroid dealer. He reportedly told investigators that Seth and Sam Levinson introduced him to steroid dealer Kirk Radomski as a source for anabolic steroids, human growth hormone (hGH) and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Lo Duca was the only baseball player who testified that his super-agents were guilty of hooking him up with PEDs. [Read more…]

Two major sports agents are under investigation after one of their clients tested positive for anabolic steroids. Melky Cabrera, a Major League Baseball player for the San Francisco Giants, was suspended for fifty games after testing positive for testosterone under the MLB’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program steroid testing program. Cabrera brought unwanted attention to Sam and Seth Levinson, the sports agents who found ACES Inc., when he tried to blame his steroid positive on a fake supplement website that was set up by a “paid consultant” for ACES. ACES denied any involvement in the scheme but the damage was done; MLB and government agents began to scrutinize any links between the Levinson brothers and anabolic steroids. [Read more…]