Manny has tested positive for steroids - 50 game ban.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4148907
1. Is there any player left that we can believe is clean?
2. That Jason Bay trade just keeps looking better and better. Can you imagine the shit storm if he were still Boston? The Red Sox really have lucked into (or out of) an awful lot of transactions - Jose Contreras, the A-Rod trade, Manny forcing his way out of Boston.
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Prescribed drug, not steroid, per Boras
It is a 50 game suspension, so it is something at least very similar to a steroid. And just because it was prescribed by a doctor doesn't mean it was clean. But we'll see how the details turn out.
Agreed on the red sox luck, although at some point we're going to hear about more players that were on the 04 and 07 rosters...and wouldn't be all THAT surprising to see Ortiz on there.
Anyway, Bill probably would have drafted Manny anyway so you dodged a bullet as well.
The 04 team might be suspect, but you have to think that the 07 team was pretty clean. In 2006 Ortiz hit 54 homeruns while the steroid policy was in place. Ortiz's power surge came when he turned 27, which is the expected age for breakout years. Now that he is 33 with that wrist injury his numbers are down. Not saying he DIDNT use PEDs for sure, but I don't see anything totally abnormal that would indicate he did. Are all 40-50 HR seasons prior to 2006 suspect? I think that assumption goes too far.
That is what is frustrating about this - we'll never really know how widespread steroid use was.
Manny supposedly tested positive for tamoxifen citrate, which is a drug that suppresses gynecomastia, AKA "bitch tits". If this is true, while it wouldn't be a positive test for a steroid, tamoxifen is a drug often coupled with steroid use. Unless Manny is a breast cancer patient there wouldn't be any valid medical reason to be on tamoxifen. Of course, this is an unconfirmed report about the positive test.
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