Alex Rodriguez told investigators and lawyers for Major League Baseball on Thursday that he was treated by a Canadian-based doctor now under investigation by federal authorities but did not receive performance-enhancing drugs from him, according to two people in baseball with knowledge of the meeting. In meeting with the Yankees’ Rodriguez for a three-hour interview sale mbt shoes
Thursday night in Florida, baseball officials ended up beating the federal authorities to the punch. The authorities have sought to interview Rodriguez for weeks but have not done so, although a meeting is expected to take place soon. Baseball officials and the federal authorities want to know what interactions Rodriguez had with the doctor, Anthony Galea, who has stated that he treated him in 2009 with anti-inflammatories after Rodriguez’s hip surgery.Rodriguez was accompanied to the meeting by several personal lawyers as well as a lawyer from the players union, the people said.Investigators from Major League Baseball’s department of investigations and at least one lawyer from the commissioner’s office questioned Rodriguez, the people said. Major League Baseball’s top drug-testing official, Rob Manfred, was not at the meeting.Officials for Major League Baseball wanted to meet with Rodriguez before the season began and have urged him to meet with federal authorities as soon as possible, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified discussing the details of a meeting that was supposed to remain confidential.Rodriguez was in the lineup Friday when the Yankees played Baltimore in a spring training game in Tampa, Fla. After going 1 for 2 at the plate, he was taken out of the game and proceeded to meet with reporters in the Yankees’ christian louboutin shoes
clubhouse.He confirmed that he had met with baseball’s investigators, saying, “I cooperated; they were very happy.” Asked if he intended to meet with federal authorities before the Yankees open their season on Sunday night in Boston, he said, “I can’t really get into anything.”Rodriguez had planned to meet with federal authorities March 26 in Buffalo, where the local United States attorney’s office is heading the investigation into Galea, which is centered on the possibility that he distributed performance enhancers, including human growth hormone, to various athletes. However, that meeting was put off after Rodriguez’s lawyers expressed concern that widespread knowledge of the meeting would lead to a media spectacle.Federal authorities had previously tried to interview Rodriguez in Florida last month, but Rodriguez put off that session.Rodriguez’s relationship with Galea has left Major 传奇sf
League Baseball and the Yankees concerned, in part because the player’s representatives told the team in December that he had never had any interactions with the doctor.