Bob Nightengale reports in USA Today about Major League Baseball?s efforts to investigate players named in the Biogenesis documents. Of somewhat surprising note: Nightengale says some 90 players appear in the records. Of less surprising note: it?s the big fish that MLB is clearly focusing on: Alex Rodriguez and, even more so, Ryan Braun:
There might be plenty of minor leaguers to go down before this is over, maybe a few major league players, too, but there are really two players who captivate MLB?s interest.?New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and Braun. And Braun happens to be MLB?s Public Enemy No.1.
His successful appeal of a positive testosterone test led to major revisions in baseball?s sample collection process last year.?Baseball officials, from the top executives in New York to their field investigators, refuse to let it go.?They want Braun ? badly. They have been relentless in their pursuit, trying to make life as miserable as possible for him.
Nightengale describes MLB investigators ?talking to his friends ? talking to his peers ? talking to his associates. They are scouring through paperwork. They keep digging.?
Which, hey, that?s what you do when you investigate. And with all due respect to Braun and the players under the microscope, kudos to Major League Baseball if it is, in fact, trying to actually build cases against these guys rather than do the instantaneous judge/jury/executioner thing that so many in the media decided to do a day after the Miami New Times story came out.
But there is a troubling element to it. The biggest mistake of the Mitchell Report was how it was hellbent to get a list of names and make examples/token victims out of some while failing, almost entirely, to grasp what was really going on with PEDs in baseball in such a way as to actually combat their proliferation and use. ?If, in this case, baseball has a monomaniacal?focus on carrying out some vendetta against Braun and, because of it, fails to undertake a systematic investigation of the Biogenesis matter, it is once again going down the road of the Mitchell Report.
If Nightengale is right and there are 90 players named, there should be interviews and investigations of 90 players. Or, at the very least, investigations of enough of them to get a full picture of what?s going on down in Miami. The point should not be to settle some score with Ryan Braun. He should be meted out justice, if justice is so justified, in the same manner and measure as any other player involved.
Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/20/ryan-braun-is-mlbs-public-enemy-no-1/related/
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