The New York Yankees and Shortstop Derek Jeter reportedly reached a preliminary agreement recently on a US$51 million ($67 million), three-year contract with an US$8 million player option for 2014.

There was little doubt that the Yankees captain would remain in New York while negotiations moved slowly.

From NZHerald.co.nz:

Unlike A-Rod, who admitted using steroids before his time with the Yankees, Jeter has been a model citizen since coming up to the Yankees in 1995 and winning the AL Rookie of the Year award the following season.

He helped lead the team to World Series titles in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009, setting a standard admired and envied throughout baseball.

Jeter’s 2010 season made the contract situation more complicated. Despite winning his second consecutive Gold Glove and becoming the oldest AL shortstop to win the award, he showed less range. And he declined at the plate to a .270 average with 10 home runs, down from a .334 average and 18 homers the previous season.

While his RBIs increased by one to 67, his on-base percentage fell from .406 to .340 and his slugging average dropped from .465 to .370. New York also has been working to settle a US$30 million, two-year agreement with closer Mariano Rivera, which also contains deferred money.

The guaranteed portion of the contract offered to Jeter includes a US$3 million buyout if the option is declined. If it is exercised, he would earn US$56 million over four seasons.

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The seventh and youngest player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 career home runs, Alex Rodriguez, is still under a lot of pressure to prove critics wrong who often find it amusing to link A-Rod with anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

It is believed by some that the 600th home run may just not be enough for A-Rod to gain an easy entry into the Hall of Fame once he becomes eligible five years after retirement.

From NYtimes.com:

Rodriguez is part of a quartet of sluggers who carry the scarlet letter S on their broad backs. The retired stars Barry Bonds (the career leader with 762 homers), Sammy Sosa (609) and Mark McGwire (583) are all linked, to one degree or another, to performance-enhancing drugs.

They are stacked up in the stratosphere, waiting to see if the writers who vote for membership in the Hall will ultimately accept them. At the moment, there are no guarantees. McGwire, who has been eligible for four years, eked his way up to 24 percent in January, far short of the 75 percent needed for admission.

This overt withholding of honor is the legacy of a steroid era that began in the last decade, when McGwire, Sosa and Bonds all had surprisingly high home run totals at ages when most great sluggers are tailing off. Steroids were illegal by federal law and by edict of Major League Baseball, although no testing was in place during their peak years.

On his own, Rodriguez brought up his link with steroids Wednesday after the Yankees defeated Toronto, 5-1, at Yankee Stadium.

People still doubt me and my performance because of what happened in the past, Rodriguez told Suzyn Waldman of WCBS Radio.

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Derek Jeter, the New York Yankees captain, is avoiding questions about A-Rod until the start of spring training.

Jeter did not answer questions concerning his high-profile teammate a day after Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance enhancing drugs over a period of three years ending in 2003.

From Espnstar.com:

“I’m not addressing Alex’s situation until everybody’s here,” Jeter told reporters Tuesday at the Yankees’ training complex. “If you’ve got baseball questions, I’ll do that. You know where I’m coming from. I don’t want to talk to you guys today and have three more people show up tomorrow. It’s better to get everyone together.

“Are things a distraction? It’s a distraction when you talk about it every single day.”

New York’s position players must report to spring training by next Tuesday.

In an exclusive interview conducted Monday with ESPN, Rodriguez acknowledged using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, when he was a member of the Texas Rangers.

The interview came two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003. The report stated that Rodriguez’s name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive during a survey conducted by Major League Baseball.

The Yankees offered their support for A-Rod in a statement by saying that they respect his decision of taking accountability for his actions.

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Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees third baseman, admitted recently that a cousin injected him with a substance known as Boli during his three seasons from 2001-2003 with the Texan Rangers.

Rodriguez said Boli is available over the counter in the Dominican Republic while addressing the media for the first time since admitting his use of a performance enhancing drug.

From Espnstar.com:

Rodriguez told a media throng of 200 that he and his cousin were unaware of the implications of what they were doing.

“It was pretty evident that we didn’t know what we were doing,” he said. “My cousin did not provide any other players with it. I stopped taking in 2003 and haven’t taken it since.”

During news conference that lasted about 40 minutes, Rodriguez said he stopped taking the substance following his neck injury in 2003 and after Major League Baseball introduced a drug-testing program.

Rodriguez said he took the substance about twice a month. He would not reveal the name of his cousin, however, and suggested the two of them did not even know if they were properly administering the substance.

“I don’t even know if we did it right,” he said. “I didn’t think they were steroids. That’s part of my being young and stupid. It was over the counter, it was pretty basic. It was really amateur hour.”

A-Rod told that his cousin told him that Boli could give him an energy boost and nothing more.

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Tom Hicks, the owner of Texan Rangers, insists that he feel “betrayed” by the use of performance enhancing drugs by Alex Rodriguez.

In an exclusive interview conducted with ESPN, Rodriguez acknowledged making use of performance enhancing drugs when he was a member of the Rangers from 2001-03.

From Espnstar.com:

“I feel personally betrayed,” Hicks said. “I feel deceived by Alex. He assured me he had too much respect for his own body to do that to himself. I’m shocked.”

The ESPN interview, which was broadcast shortly after it was recorded, came two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003.

He stated during the interview that he only used performance-enhancers during his time with the Rangers and not his previous stint with the Seattle Mariners (1995-2000) or his current run with the Yankees.

Penalties for positive tests in MLB were introduced in 2004 and there is no suggestion Rodriguez took any banned substance after 2003.

But Hicks refuted that claim, asserting that Rodriguez could have used performance-enhancers prior to his arrival in Texas.

“I certainly don’t believe that,” Hicks added. “If he’s now admitting that he started using when he came to the Texas Rangers, why should I believe that it didn’t start before he came to the Texas Rangers?”

The Rangers owner also quashed the notion that A-Rod felt pressured to live up to the contract by saying that he is used to and performed under pressure.

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A Canadian-based doctor named Anthony Galea presently investigated for being a possible distributor of performance enhancing drugs has prompted Yankees officials reach out to representatives of their star slugger Alex Rodriguez.

The officials wanted to know if A-Rod had ever had any dealings with Galea.

From NYTimes.com:

The Yankees were particularly concerned, said a person in baseball with knowledge of what occurred, because Rodriguez was monitored by a chiropractor last season who had worked closely with Galea in the past. The monitoring was part of the follow-up to Rodriguez’s hip surgery last March, and the apparent link to Galea made the Yankees nervous.

So, the person said, the inquiry went out to Rodriguez’s representatives: Did the third baseman — the highest-paid player in baseball — have any interactions with Galea? And the answer came back: No.

Now, however, those same Yankees officials are not sure what to think.

On Monday, Rodriguez told reporters at the team’s spring training facility in Tampa, Fla., that he had been contacted by federal authorities seeking to interview him in connection with their investigation of Galea.

Galea, who is based in Toronto, has been charged by authorities in Canada with conspiring to smuggle human growth hormone and other drugs into the United States.

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According to a report on ESPN.com, the mysterious “cousin” that Alex Rodriguez claimed to have provided and injected him with steroids from 2001-2003 has been identified as Yuri Sucart, a resident of Miami.

ESPN disclosed that Sucart has been a friend and confidante of A-Rod for many years and followed him from Seattle to Texas.

From NYdailynews.com:

According to the Web site, Sucart’s wife, Carmen, confirmed that it was her husband who Rodriguez was referring to when he said in a nationally televised press conference that his cousin had injected him with what he referred to as “boli,” street slang in the Dominican Republic for the hardcore steroid Primobolan.

According to a report two weeks ago in Sports Illustrated, Rodriguez tested positive for Primobolan and testosterone in Major League Baseball’s 2003 survey testing season.

Sucart, according to ESPN, has been Rodriguez’s friend and confidante for several years, and followed him from Seattle to Texas, often traveling with him on the road. Sucart’s wife said Wednesday night that her husband would have no comment.

Rodriguez’s mention of the man raised questions about whether laws had been broken by smuggling steroids from the Dominican Republic into the United States.

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Rays manager Joe Maddon said before Thursday’s game against the Tigers that the reason why the 600th career home run by Alex Rodriguez was not greeted with nationwide interest was because of his involvement with performance enhancing drugs.

Some experts are of the view that the lack of interest by baseball fans is probably because Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Jr. both reached 600 in the past decade but Maddon has a different view.

From NYdailynews.com:

“Because of all the subplots involved, I think that’s why you’re not getting as much of a build-up,” the Rays manager said before Thursday’s game against the Tigers. “I don’t think that it’s worn off. I think when Jim Thome arrives nearer that point you’re going to see the same kind of previous build-up, I believe, as an example. I think based on the revelations of the last couple years, I think it probably detracts from it a bit.”

Wade Davis, Friday night’s scheduled Rays starter, has allowed two home runs to A-Rod – one on the last day of the 2009 season at Tropicana Field, then another this past May 19 in the Bronx.

Davis said that it is a greater challenge for A-Rod than it is for others.

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Alex Rodriguez, who became the seventh and youngest player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 career home runs, is still under pressure to perform better and prove others wrong who just cannot think beyond his association with anabolic steroids and performance enhancing drugs.

It is worthwhile to note here that this numerical milestone may not be enough for A-Rod to gain an easy entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame when he becomes eligible five years after retirement.

From NYtimes.com:

Rodriguez is part of a quartet of sluggers who carry the scarlet letter S on their broad backs. The retired stars Barry Bonds (the career leader with 762 homers), Sammy Sosa (609) and Mark McGwire (583) are all linked, to one degree or another, to performance-enhancing drugs.

They are stacked up in the stratosphere, waiting to see if the writers who vote for membership in the Hall will ultimately accept them. At the moment, there are no guarantees. McGwire, who has been eligible for four years, eked his way up to 24 percent in January, far short of the 75 percent needed for admission.

This overt withholding of honor is the legacy of a steroid era that began in the last decade, when McGwire, Sosa and Bonds all had surprisingly high home run totals at ages when most great sluggers are tailing off. Steroids were illegal by federal law and by edict of Major League Baseball, although no testing was in place during their peak years.

On his own, Rodriguez brought up his link with steroids Wednesday after the Yankees defeated Toronto, 5-1, at Yankee Stadium.

Rodriguez told Suzyn Waldman of WCBS Radio that people still doubt him and his performance because of what happened in the past.

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Alex Rodriguez, popularly known as A-Rod, never realized how much he missed the game of baseball until he viewed the All-Star Game on television last year.

Though Rodriguez had many other things on his mind like the spring steroids scandal and his comeback from hip surgery, but it seems like he missed it nonetheless.

From NYdailynews.com:

“I’m just so happy to be here,” Rodriguez said Monday. “Last year, I didn’t like not being here, but I had gone through a lot of stuff. Being here gives me a lot of perspective of how different I am as a person and as a teammate from 500 home runs to hopefully 600 home runs. To find some perspective in that, it’s pretty interesting.”

That perspective dates back to February 2009, when Rodriguez was outed as a former user of performance-enhancing drugs, a scandal that sullied his reputation as one of the game’s greats. A-Rod’s Tampa press conference to discuss the PED issue raised more questions than it answered, sparking a daily cycle in which more details were revealed about his sordid past.

Then came the hip surgery in early-March 2009 that derailed his spring and cost him the first month of the season, leading some to ask if he would ever again return to his All-Star form. Rodriguez went on to hit 30 home runs and drive in 100 runs last season, but it wasn’t until he helped lead the Yankees to the World Series title last fall that the superstar was able to truly put his contentious year behind him.

Andy Pettitte said A-Rod has always been in the All-Star game and it feels like this is the place where he belongs.

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