The Major League Baseball may have come to an agreement with its players to test their blood for human growth hormone but the game will be expected to come to grips with its present testing before it touts itself as the leader in new drug testing, said BALCO founder Victor Conte.

Conte further remarked that MLB should be using a more sophisticated form of detecting testosterone or its HGH testing would not really make a difference as players often make use of small amounts of testosterone in conjunction with HGH.

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“HGH is not effective unless it is used in conjunction with testosterone or other anabolic steroids,” Conte says. “It’s important to understand that HGH is not an anabolic agent. It is an anti-catabolic agent. It basically helps to reduce muscle degradation and enables a player to maintain the gains they’ve made using steroids for a longer period of time. By itself, HGH has been shown to have no significant performance-enhancing effects.”

Conte, who is now an advocate for stronger testing, has been saying for years that the 4-to-1 testosterone to epitestosterone ratio used by baseball and other leagues to detect testosterone use is ineffective.

“Testosterone gels, creams and patches will clear an MLB player’s system within a matter of hours and be below the 4 to 1 T/E ratio allowable in urine,” he says. “A player could possibly use a fast-acting form of testosterone at night after a game to help with recovery and their T/E ratio would be within the normal range by the time they would get to the ballpark the next evening.

“If MLB were to implement CIR testing, I believe they would possibly catch a significant number of players using testosterone,” Conte says.

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Alvaro Aristy (Jorge Leandro Guzman) signed with the Padres three years ago for a sum of $1 million but neither age, talent, or name have proven to be legitimate.

Dan Mullin, the vice president of Major League Baseball‘s department of investigations, remarked the MLB got a tip about Aristy’s identity in January 2010.

From Baseballamerica.com:

Randy Smith, Padres vice president of player development and international scouting, said the team was surprised to learn of Guzman’s fraud before spring training in 2010. “We had no reason to be suspicious,” Smith said. “From our information and him being cleared the first time, we were comfortable with MLB‘s investigation.”

MLB launched its department of investigations in 2008 in response to recommendations from the Mitchell Report, but Mullin’s team didn’t take over age and identity investigations of Latin American players until July 2009. Prior to that, teams contracted out background checks of Latin American players—including Guzman’s—to independent investigators, a system that team officials often complained was ineffective and at times outright corrupt.

This is the second time that player has been in the news for the wrong seasons. In July 2009, he was suspended for 50 games after he tested positive for a metabolite of Nandrolone, an anabolic steroid commonly sold as Deca Durabolin.

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Two House Democrats are urging Major League Baseball and the players union for implementing testing for human growth hormone and ban chewing tobacco by players in uniform and in public view.

Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Frank Pallone of New Jersey made those requests in a letter to Commissioner Bud Selig and Michael Weiner, executive director of the players union.

From Espn.go.com:

“These issues affect the integrity of the game, the health of your players, and most important, the health of teenagers who aspire to be like pro players,” the congressmen wrote.

The players union declined to comment on the letter. MLB did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Waxman and Pallone noted that Selig testified in 2008 that he would support an HGH test “when a valid, commercially available and practical test for HGH becomes reality,” and that Weiner’s predecessor, Donald Fehr, said at that hearing the union would “consider in good faith any valid and effective test which is developed.” Waxman chaired that hearing, held to discuss the Mitchell Report, which identified major league players it said had used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.

“The time to begin testing for HGH in baseball has arrived,” Waxman wrote, citing the use of blood testing for HGH in the Olympics.

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A warning has been sent to MLB players from Major League Baseball for them to avoid the use of Deer Antler spray or face suspension for using a league banned substance.

The spray, which is an alternative to steroids, has been added to the MLB list of”potentially contaminated nutritional supplements.”

From Inquisitr.com:

At the center of the controversy is IGF-1 (an insulin-like growth factor) which is found on the velvet from antlers in immature deers. IGF-1 specifically affects a person’s level of human growth hormone.

The makers of the spray say it enhances performance and can’t be detected through urine samples. While blood tests can show the drug the MLB only relies on urine tests at this time. MLB officials however believe that the spray can cause players to test positive for methyltestosterone, a banned steroid.

The MLB can petition for the right to draw blood samples in players, however at this point the players association has refused to grant blood tests for all players despite understanding that certain drugs can not be tested using basic urine tests.

MLB players are currently being educated about the drug since long-term effects from the drug have not been explored at this time.

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Jose Canseco, the former baseball slugger, has expressed regret over his involvement in the sport’s ongoing steroids controversy in a one-hour documentary titled, “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot.”

Canseco regretted “mentioning players (as steroids users)” in his book “Juiced” that was published in 2005 and ultimately led to a congressional hearing on doping in the sport.

From Espnstar.com:

Canseco, 44, revealed that he wrote the book because he wanted to get even with Major League Baseball, which he believed had him “forced out of the game.”

In his book, Canseco named Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro as steroids users. Those three players, along with Canseco, were present at a March 2005 congressional hearing in which Sosa and McGwire provided questionable testimony while Palmeiro defiantly denied using steroids.

Less than four years later, Sosa and McGwire are widely considered longshots to reach the Hall of Fame despite ranking sixth and eighth, respectively, on baseball’s all-time list for career home runs. Palmeiro tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during the 2005 season and was suspended.

“If I could meet with Mark McGwire and these players, I definitely would apologize to them,” said Canseco, who developed a friendship with McGwire during their seven-year stint together with the Oakland Athletics. “They were my friends. I admired them, I respected them.”

“I never realized this was going to blow up and hurt so many people,” Canseco said in the interview.

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According to a report by the New York Times, Major League Baseball and union officials may have misled the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the context of steroid use among players.

The officials presented figures that demonstrated that the two-year-old testing program of baseball had substantially reduced the number of positive tests for performance enhancing drugs, as per the newspaper.

From Espnstar.com:

“It’s clear that some of the information Major League Baseball and the players’ union gave the committee in 2005 was inaccurate,” Waxman said in a written statement, according to the Times. “It isn’t clear whether this was intentional or just reflects confusion over the testing program for 2003 and 2004. In any case, the misinformation is unacceptable.”

The newspaper also reported that the committee’s staff plans to send letters to MLB commissioner Bud Selig and union executive director Donald Fehr about what Waxman deemed “misinformation.”

Those falsities came from the information about 2004 testing, which was shut down for part of the season, allowing for the significantly lower number of positive results, according to the report. The newspaper said the committee was not aware of that. The Times reported that Selig’s office later called that shutdown “an emergency response to an unforeseen situation,” which the report said was in reference to the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroid ring.

“The testimony of Major League Baseball officials was completely accurate, and we are happy to address any concerns that Congressman Waxman may have,” deputy commissioner Rob Manfred said.

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U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, the judge looking after the case of Roger Clemens, has selected 24 potential jurors from an original pool of 50 to come back Tuesday.

Clemens, the most decorated pitcher in Major League Baseball, has pleaded not guilty to charges of committing perjury, obstructing Congress, and making false statements in 2008.

From Washingtonpost.com:

None of the potential jurors probed by the judge Monday were more than casual baseball fans, though many had heard of Clemens. The second potential juror said she was a fan of European soccer.

“I have not followed baseball since the ‘80s,” she said. She was asked to come back Tuesday.

Another juror worried the defense when he said he came from a law enforcement family consisting of police officers, detectives, a sheriff and a Texas Ranger.

But the potential juror, who catered federal and Republican Party events during George W. Bush’s two terms as president, said he would be fair.

“I’m a Regular Joe, okay?” he said. “I’m going to still love baseball, no matter which way this goes.”

Clemens told a House committee that he did not use anabolic steroids and Human Growth Hormone.

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Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has issued a warning that baseball star, Alex Rodriguez, could face a suspension in the wake of his admission.

Selig said to USA Today, “It was against the law, so I would have to think about that,” Selig told the newspaper. “It’s very hard. I’ve got to think about all that kind of stuff.”

From Espnstar.com:

Steroids and human growth hormone officially were placed on baseball’s banned substance prior to the 2004 season so any attempt to penalise a player for an infraction beforehand would almost certainly be challenged by the players union.

“I would be surprised if there was an attempt to do it,” said Donald Fehr, the union’s executive director.

Rodriguez admitted his use of steroids in an interview with ESPN on Monday – two days after Sports Illustrated reported that Rodriguez tested positive for two anabolic steroids in 2003.

According to the report, Rodriguez’s name appeared on a list of 104 players who tested positive during a survey conducted by Major League Baseball in 2003.

Selig also said he is mulling reinstating Hank Aaron as baseball’s career home run leader.

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Jamaican sprinter Steve Mullings is confident that he will be beat drug rap when the second portion (B Sample) of the urine sample he submitted following the men’s 100m final at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Trials on June 24, will be tested in the presence of his representatives at the IAAF/WADA accredited lab in Montréal, Canada.

His B sample will be tested at the Doping Control Laboratory at the INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier Research Center in Quebec.

From Jamaicaobserver.com:

It was revealed last week that the first portion (A Sample) of Mullings sample had tested positive for the presence of a powerful diuretic Furosemide that has been used by athletes to mask the presence of anabolic steroids in their system.

According to Medicinenet.com, Furosemide, which is dispensed under the brand name ‘Lasix’, is “a potent diuretic (water pill) that is used to eliminate water and salt from the body. In the kidneys, salt (composed of sodium and chloride), water, and other small molecules normally are filtered out of the blood and into the tubules of the kidney. The filtered fluid ultimately becomes urine”.

Mullings’ agent John Regis told reporters last week that Mullings, who has the third fastest 100m time so far this season when he ran 9.80 seconds to win the event at the Pre-Fontaine Classic on July 4 in Eugene, Oregon, was notified last week Monday of the failed drug test.

The lab is one of only two World Anti-Doping Agency-certified laboratories in North America and has been used by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association for many years as well as the US Major League Baseball.

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A warning was issued by the Major League Baseball (MLB) to major and minor league players last week for stop ingesting deer antler spray.

Baseball players used to felt safe using a deer antler spray as an alternative to steroids with almost no risk of flunking a drug test.

From Sportsillustrated.cnn.com:

Deer antlers? Yes, chemists have figured out that the velvet from immature deer antlers includes insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1, which mediates the level of human growth hormone in the body, and is also banned by MLB and the World Anti-Doping Agency, among others, for its muscle-building and fat-cutting effects.

The antlers are harvested from young deer, ground up and packaged into spray form. The substance is sprayed under the tongue. One manufacturer touts among its benefits “anabolic or growth stimulation,” “athletic performance” and “muscular strength and endurance.”

IGF-1, like HGH, cannot be detected in the urine tests used by baseball. Under the right circumstances, it could be detected in a blood test, but the players association has not agreed to blood testing.

MLB added the product to its list of “potentially contaminated nutritional supplements.”

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