Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 08, 2007
No Positives

There's an interesting point made about Glaus in this Star story. The allegations are that Glaus received drug up until May of 2004.

Dr. Christiane Ayotte, who heads an anti-doping lab in Montreal which has performed drug testing for the league, said she can't understand how Glaus could have avoided detection if he had been using nandrolone.

In 2005, MLB instituted random drug testing on its players.

"Everybody knows that nandrolone pharmaceutical preparations are long-lasting," Ayotte said

"It should have been detected ... unless he was not tested or never took it. Nandrolone is easy to detect and our anecdotal reports show it lasts up to 20 months in the system."

I suppose it's possible he wasn't test until the end of 2005, and that gave the drug enough time to get out of his system. But also, in 2005, MLB was forgiving the first offense, where the player wasn't suspended and the results were not made public. He might have failed, and we just don't know about it.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:19 AM | Cheating | TrackBack (0)
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You know what? Back in the late 90's EVERYONE was on steroids. I was in denial at the time, but in hind sight that appears to be the case. Now, it is starting to look like EVERYONE is on the HGH. Fool me once...........

I heard Rob Dibble on his XM show yesterday asking for PROOF that steroids helps you hit a ball better. You want proof Rob? Sorry I don't have beakers and vials of lab results and thousands of pages of data but how's this for proof? IN THE HISTORY OF ORGINIZED SPORT nobody has gone from "very good" to "out of this world" in their mid thirties until Major League Baseball in the late nineties. Now pair this with the fact that those EXACT SAME PLAYERS doubled in size.

How's that for proof Rob? Jerk.


Posted by: Jon M. at September 8, 2007 10:36 AM

They use masking agents that fool the tests. Bodybuilders and olympic atheletes have been fooling tests for years. That's why when sport officials say they have the toughest test it doesn't mean much.

Posted by: Mark at September 8, 2007 06:25 PM

Dave,

Actually a failed steroid test in 2005 resulted in a 10 game suspension. In 2006 it then became a 50 game suspension. It was 2004 in which a failed first test was not reported and did not result in a suspension. The first year of testing was 2003 but this testing was only done for the sole purpose of determining if more then 5% were using. If and only if more then 5% were using would ongoing testing with penalties be required starting in 2004.

What I suspect is that Glaus used Nandrolone in 2003 (and thus was one of the more then 5% that failed) and switched to Testosterone in 2004.

Posted by: giantsrainman at September 8, 2007 09:23 PM
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