Reports: Alex Rodriguez Named The Ones Involved With PED Usage

More information has emerged about the extent to which MLB legend Alex Rodriguez implicated his colleagues during the Biogenesis affair.

Reports: Alex Rodriguez Named The Ones Involved With PED Usage

Rodriguez spoke with US Drug Enforcement Administration officials in January 2014, according to ESPN’s Mike Fish. He acknowledged utilizing performance-enhancing medications obtained from Tony Bosch during the encounter.

Due to his PED usage, the former New York Yankees third baseman was suspended for the full 2014 season. According to ESPN’s Mike Fish, much more has come to light regarding Rodriguez’s usage of performance-enhancing drugs, as well as the charades he played behind the scenes to evade prosecution.

Rodriguez first acknowledged taking steroids to the DEA in a January 2014 encounter. It was the first time A-Rod admitted to buying and using steroids. Furthermore, his statement assisted the DEA in better understanding his relationship with Tony Bosch, the head of the Biogenesis PED scandal that shook the MLB.

The three-time MVP told investigators that Bosch informed him Ryan Braun, Manny Ramirez, and an anonymous “All-Star player” were among his other customers.

Aside from mentioning specific MLB players, Fish stated that Rodriguez “ultimately resorted to desperate, scorched-earth tactics to preserve his reputation.”

The former Yankees star acknowledged to paying Bosch $12,000 per month for PED substances. Rodriguez would go via a middleman and pay in cash to avoid being caught. He also acknowledged to lying to Yankees President Randy Levine about his contact with Bosch.

Ramirez was suspended for 50 games in 2009 by the Dodgers for breaching the league’s PED policy. He was issued with a 100-game penalty in 2011 while playing for the Rays, but he never served it, instead retiring.

Braun’s ban was imposed in 2013. According to ESPN, the third player was not on the radar of federal agents and was never suspended by MLB.

Fish detailed Ramirez’s relationship with Tony Bosch in a separate report filed Wednesday, describing how a 2007 phone call between the two “would take Bosch from the periphery of medicine as an anti-ageing specialist to setting him on a course to become the go-to guy for athletes seeking performance-enhancing drugs and doping protocols.”

In 2015, Bosch pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute testosterone and was sentenced to four years in federal prison. In 2016, a court reduced the sentence by 16 months.

Rodriguez was suspended for the whole 2014 season, and his legacy will be eternally tainted as a result of his involvement in a massive PED controversy.

 

 

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