Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) – Alex Rodriguez has maintained that he never took performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis of America or its disgraced founder, Anthony Bosch.<\/p>\n
According to a Miami Herald report, though, the Yankees third baseman told the Drug Enforcement Agency in January that he paid cash to Bosch for PEDs and received injections of human growth hormone.<\/p>\n
“Rodriguez injected the HGH into his stomach,” the 15-page DEA report said, according to the Herald. “Rodriguez said Bosch told him the HGH would help with sleep, weight, hair growth, eyesight and muscle recovery.”<\/p>\n
Bosch also apparently advised Rodriguez on how to “beat” baseball’s mandated drug tests. The report specified that Bosch told Rodriguez to only use mid- stream urine for MLB drug testing, rather than the beginning or the end urine stream.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez’s testimony to the DEA apparently granted him immunity from future prosecution and came just 18 days after a defiant denial in the wake of an arbiter reducing his initial 211-game ban for his involvement with Biogenesis.<\/p>\n
“I have been clear that I did not use performance-enhancing substances … and in order to prove it, I will take this fight to federal court,” Rodriguez said back on Jan. 11, 2014.<\/p>\n
This bombshell report comes on the heels of another story in the New York Daily News that Rodriguez supposedly paid his cousin, Yuri Sucart, close to $1 million for his silence.<\/p>\n
The Miami Herald report states that Sucart, who is facing his own charges stemming from a federal investigation into Biogenesis, served as Rodriguez’s steroid go-fer to Bosch.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez was just recently reinstated to the Yankees after sitting out the entire 2014 season for violations of baseball’s drug agreement and labor contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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