2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

[DeadsetAce]

braves making moves, huh.


going to be a LONG season in boston...again

 

[d3si]

Justin Upton to Atlanta? Meh, it's so sad to see my beloved Mets not signing any major league free-agents yet. Alderson won't spend money. Not complaining at all. Hopefully some championship-caliber teams takes Johan Santana off the Mets roster. I'd love to see him getting a ring. He deserves one.

 

[ooiron manoo]

In the Mets defense, there wasn't much on the free agent market this year, and the Mets did lock up their franchise player.

 

[mr jordan04]

Am I the only one who thinks the Upton brothers in ATL might be an issue

 

[lightweight champion]

 

[childishlatino]

Rays might be moving..where would be a good place?

 

[frink85]

for real LOLd. bravo to whoever thought of that one

 

[mr marcus]

Rays might be moving..where would be a good place?

raleigh/durham area 

 baseball is loved here in NC

 

[proshares]

I think they'd just be moving somewhere else in Florida. That's what I heard a while ago.

 

[mr jordan04]

They can probably sell out at their local little league field.

 

[thetruth03]

Atlanta's lineup is NASTY...

 

[mr marcus]

 

[mfreshm]

Braves are going to be a beast of a team NL east division winners or 1st wildcard spot. Hate to see Prado gone a true gamer.

Don't like platoon at third of Juan Francisco / Johnson. Braves need to win a world series though.

 

[madj55]

I hope I'm not being naive and just standing behind my guy, but go are they linking Gio Gonzalez to this new PED report when there isn't even a last name for the Gio that was in this guys notebook? Are they just assuming?

 

[cincoseisdos]

Not assuming

http://deadspin.com/5979819/?utm_ca...ource=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Woooow. I'm suddenly very happy with our trade

 

[RyGuy45]

^ A Rod is done

After this latest the Media is going to tear him apart (again) and it's going to later be the HOF voters who shut him out. Dude was another walking chemistry experiment

Report: A-Rod, Gio Gonzalez, Nelson Cruz, Melky Cabrera, Others Named In Records Of Miami PED Dealer

Deadspin.com

Set aside some time to read Tim Elfrink's bombshell story in the Miami New Times, on what can only be termed BALCO East: a Miami "anti-aging clinic" that specializes in HGH, synthetic testosterone, and any other performance-enhancing drug you can imagine. We know this because the clinic's director helpfully kept handwritten records of his clients and their regimens.

The clinic is called Biogenesis, and its head is Anthony Bosch, who is proof you don't need to be a criminal mastermind to run a massive PED ring—he had aliases for each of his clients, but when writing down their appointments and prescriptions, included both the nickname and their real name. There's known PED users Alex Rodrigez, Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, and Padres super-rookie Yasmani Grandal; previously unimplicated baseball players Nelson Cruz and Gio Gonzalez; Cuban boxer Yuriorkis Gamboa; South African tennis player Wayne Odesnik.

Bosch was almost comically inept—in one of his notebooks, he had written glowing praise of himself, like a middle-schooler on a Trapper Keeper:

"Dr. Tony Bosch is recognized as an international educator and world-class leader in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy," reads one description, which also praises him as a "pioneer in orthomolecular medicine" and calls him a "molecular biochemist."

It was Bosch and his father, Pedro Bosch, who reportedly provided Manny Ramirez with the hormone hCG that led to his suspension in 2009.

Alex Rodriguez, who maintains he stopped using PEDs a decade ago, is all over Bosch's records. One patient list, from 2009, lists Rodriguez, noting he paid $3,500 for "1.5/1.5 HGH (sports perf.) creams test., glut., MIC, supplement, sports perf. Diet."

The mentions of Rodriguez begin in 2009 and continue all the way through last season. Take a page in another notebook, which is labeled "2012" and looks to have been written last spring. Under the heading "A-Rod/Cacique," Bosch writes, "He is paid through April 30th. He will owe May 1 $4,000... I need to see him between April 13-19, deliver troches, pink cream, and... May meds. Has three weeks of Sub-Q (as of April)."

Elsewhere in his notebooks, Bosch writes that "Sub-Q" refers to his mixture of HGH, IGF-1, and other drugs.

The notebooks and client lists aren't the only evidence linking Rodriguez to Bosch. Former employees say Bosch would openly brag about selling drugs to Rodriguez.

"He was always talking about A-Rod," says one former employee who asked not to be named. "We never saw any athletes in the office, so we didn't know if he was just talking ******** or not. But he would brag about how tight they were."

Melky Cabrera, who was busted in the middle of an MVP-type season for failing a drug test, seems to have infuriated Bosch.

Bosch rails against Cabrera, writing that "in helping him, I put my business and all my doctors at risk by fabricating patient charts and phony prescriptions." He adds that the slugger should "man-up" and pay $9,000 he owes, adding, "I am on the 'line' here!!"

Nelson Cruz is listed as taking "troches," a synthetic testosterone lozenge. Gio Gonzalez appears multiple times, with one of his notations reading, "Zinc/MIC/... and Aminorip. For Gio and charge $1,000."

When New Times approached the players and teams with these allegations last week, certain players' agents began leaking information to lay the blame on Bosch, and soften the blow of this scoop. On Saturday, both the New York Daily News and ESPN.com ran stories indicating MLB was investigating Bosch, as well as the entire South Florida "PED Corridor."

MLB says it will look into these latest allegations.

 

[rawex5]

Yikes.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Oh, and Nelson Cruz too, huh? Guess the Rangers will be sucking a bit more air than they thought they would be this season.

 

[mr marcus]

say it aint so gio 

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Nobody cares.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Nobody cares.

What if they're suspended? I agree that no one is particularly upset about athletes using PED's, but missing playing time does make people angry.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

What if they're suspended? I agree that no one is particularly upset about athletes using PED's, but missing playing time does make people angry.

They gotta test positive, you can't be suspended based on the scribblings of some crooked Miami wellness center.

 

[proshares]

Yea, the major turn will come after these guys are called to New York to answer the questions. Then MLB will figure out the best route. But this has been suspected about that area in Miami for a bit.

 

[jjs07]