The newspaper reviewed a 15-page synopsis of A-Rod’s interview at a Drug Enforcement Administration conference room on Jan. 29. He was talking to federal agents and prosecutors who granted him immunity in their on-going probe of the now-shuttered clinic.
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“Yes, he bought performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis of America, paying roughly $12,000 a month to Anthony Bosch, the fake doctor who owned the clinic,” the newspaper reports in its summary of Rodriguez’s interview. “Yes, Bosch gave him pre-filled syringes for hormone injections into the ballplayer’s stomach, and even drew blood from him in the men’s room of a South Beach nightclub. And yes, the ballplayer’s cousin, Yuri Sucart, was his steroid go-fer.”
Among other admissions, A-Rod said he:
• Paid Bosch for testosterone cream, testosterone-laced “gummies” and human growth hormone injections;
• Injected the HGH into his stomach;
• Allowed Bosch to inject him “in the buttocks with a red liquid substance.”
“Rodriguez was alarmed about the red liquid substance and did not want to take an injectable form of testosterone,” the report said. Bosch said was “vitamins, not testosterone.”
The three-time AL MVP, who was suspended for the entire 2014 season following MLB’s investigation of Biogenesis, admitted six years ago he used performance-enhancing substances while with Texas from 2001-03, and has denied usage since.
Rodriguez played in just 44 games in the 2013 season, hitting seven home runs to increase his career total to 654, fifth-most in baseball history.
He is still owed $61 million on the final three years of his contract with the Yankees and will turn 40 next July. He could receive an additional $6 million each for five milestones that the team designates as historic achievements, the next of those believed to be tying Willie Mays’ 660 home runs for No. 4 on the all-time list.
