Steroids in Baseball

Jose Canseco has reportedly refused to provide a urine sample for steroid testing while attempting to make a comeback in the Mexican Baseball League. Canseco had been invited to try out for the ”Tigres de Quintana Roo” of Cancun. [Read more…]

Jose Canseco, former professional baseball player and steroid whistleblower, has reported having nightmares about steroids. Specifically, he experiences nightmares regarding the fallout from the revelations in his book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big”. The autobiographical account told of widespread steroid use in Major League Baseball. [Read more…]

Dino Laurenzi, Jr., the drug testing officer who collected the urine sample that resulted in a positive steroid test result for Ryan Braun, has responded to allegations that he sabotaged the doping sample. Laurenzi vehemently denied tampering with Braun’s sample. Furthermore, the WADA-accredited laboratory that analyzed the sample has confirmed that there was no evidence of tampering. [Read more…]

Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun has impugned the character of drug testing officer Dino Laurenzi in order to protect himself from being tainted by a positive steroid test result. Braun suggested Laurenzi may have sabotaged the urine sample he submitted immediately after Game 1 of the 2011 National League Division Series. [Read more…]

Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun promised that there would be “highly unusual circumstances” that would explain his positive steroid test. He had tested positive for an elevated testosterone-epitestosterone (T:E) ratio in October 2011. An elevated T:E ratio is a putative indicator of exogenous testosterone use. Unfortunately, we may never hear about those “highly unusual circumstances” now that Braun has escaped the 50-game steroid suspension on a technicality. Independent arbitrator Shyam Das ruled in his favor when he side with the MLB players’ union and upheld Braun’s appeal. [Read more…]

Jose Canseco, the former Major League Baseball Player who exposed steroid use in baseball with his autobiographical book “Juiced”, has been invited to try out for the “Tigres de Quintana Roo” of Cancun. The Quintana Roo Tigers are the defending champions of the Mexican Baseball League. The League is the only Minor League Baseball sanctioned triple-A league outside of the United States. However, Mexican League teams are not affiliated with any specific MLB team like United States based minor league teams. [Read more…]

Louise Neathway (aka Louise Meanwell) has alleged that New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman intentionally mislead federal investigators about his knowledge of steroid use by the club’s players according to the New York Daily News. Neathway was the purported mistress of Cashman since April 2010. [Read more…]

Dustin Richardson was an obscure, 26-year old left-handed pitcher who most recently played in Minor League Baseball. Sure, he played 29 games in the Major Leagues for Boston Red Sox in 2009 and 2010. But that probably won’t be what makes him famous in the annals of baseball history. Even the fact that he tested positive for steroids isn’t too unusual in the minor leagues. However, the spectacular manner in which Richardson failed the steroid test may give him some notoriety. [Read more…]

Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun accepted his National League Most Valuable Player Award at the annual Baseball Writers Association of America awards dinner in spite of the fact that he faces a 50-game suspension for using anabolic steroids. He has positioned himself as a victim of a false positive and claims the steroid test result is “B.S.” Braun is fighting the results in arbitration. [Read more…]