Alex Rodriguez’s camp leaked Biogenesis docs with Ryan Braun’s name
By Mike Dyce
The documents leaked to Yahoo! Sports, that implicated three previously unidentified players, reportedly came from New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. That means that Alex Rodriguez snitched on three major leaguers including his own teammate.
The original report from the Miami New Times included this image of the Biogenesis client list:
Somehow, Yahoo got a hold of this list:
We don’t know why the names of 3 players were initially blacked out removed from the original image. The two documents though look like they’re the same, including the wiggly underline underneath the header: “baseball.” The Yahoo image implicated Milwaukee Brewers’ Ryan Braun, Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli and Orioles third baseman Danny Valencia.
According to a report from Michael Radutzky of CBS Sports, Alex Rodriguez and his camp are responsible for the leak to Yahoo. A-Rod’s motivation is easy. It basically would be to bring everyone down with him instead of him being implicated by himself. Ryan Braun using PEDs would take some of the attention and heat off A-Rod.
At the same time, A-Rod could have tipped his hand and ended up giving up any leverage he had. A-Rod could of held onto that info and tried to use it as a bargaining chip, but once Tony Bosch decided to cooperate with the MLB’s investigation he probably would have lost that anyways.
Rodriguez’s lawyer denies the allegations:
"“The allegations are untrue and are another attempt to harm Alex — this time by driving a wedge between Alex and other players in the game. While Alex focuses on baseball and repeatedly states that he is going to respect the appeal process, the drumbeat of false allegations continues.”"
There are multiple other complications that arise from this. Deadspin says “it would be a violation of the CBA’s confidentiality clause, as well as an instance of interfering with baseball’s investigation, and MLB could seek additional punishment.”
Other than that it would certainly lower an already low opinion of him in the public eye. It could also make the clubhouse a hostile environment for him when Yankees players know he snitched on a teammate.
Alex Rodriguez could’ve taken a lesson from Goodfellas: