11 Former Mariners, 1 Tacoma Rainier Named In Steroids Report
Posted: 11:34 am PST December 13, 2007Updated: 4:41 pm PST December 13, 2007
SEATTLE -- Eleven former Seattle Mariners players and one former Tacoma Rainiers player were named in the long-awaited Mitchell report on Thursday, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark -- if not an asterisk -- next to some of baseball's biggest moments.The players include, David Segui, Josias Manzanillo, Glenallen Hill, Ron Villone, Ryan Franklin, Todd Williams, Fernando Vina, David Bell, Jose Guillen, Ismael Valdez and Manny Alexander.Jim Parque, who played for the Mariners farm team the Tacoma Rainiers in 2007, was also named in the report.
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Parque previously pitched for the Chicago White Sox and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays before playing for Arizona’s AAA class affiliate in 2004.At the end of his season with Arizona he announced his retirement.
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The report culminated a 20-month investigation by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, hired by Commissioner Bud Selig to examine the Steroids Era.
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It was uncertain whether the report would result in any penalties or suspensions.Several stars named in the report could pay the price in Cooperstown, much the way Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year merely because of steroids suspicion.
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"Former commissioner Fay Vincent told me that the problem of performance-enhancing substances may be the most serious challenge that baseball has faced since the 1919 Black Sox scandal," Mitchell said in the 409-page report."The illegal use of anabolic steroids and similar substances, in Vincent's view, is 'cheating of the worst sort.' He believes that it is imperative for Major League Baseball to 'capture the moral high ground' on the issue and, by words and deeds, make it clear that baseball will not tolerate the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs," Mitchell said.According to one of the players named in the Mitchell report, he received some of his steroids from a pharmacist in Seattle.
Parque previously pitched for the Chicago White Sox and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays before playing for Arizona’s AAA class affiliate in 2004.At the end of his season with Arizona he announced his retirement.
The report culminated a 20-month investigation by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, hired by Commissioner Bud Selig to examine the Steroids Era.
It was uncertain whether the report would result in any penalties or suspensions.Several stars named in the report could pay the price in Cooperstown, much the way Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year merely because of steroids suspicion.
"Former commissioner Fay Vincent told me that the problem of performance-enhancing substances may be the most serious challenge that baseball has faced since the 1919 Black Sox scandal," Mitchell said in the 409-page report."The illegal use of anabolic steroids and similar substances, in Vincent's view, is 'cheating of the worst sort.' He believes that it is imperative for Major League Baseball to 'capture the moral high ground' on the issue and, by words and deeds, make it clear that baseball will not tolerate the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs," Mitchell said.According to one of the players named in the Mitchell report, he received some of his steroids from a pharmacist in Seattle.
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