Steroids Blog

Curtis Wenzlaff, a convicted drug dealer, who claimed to have supplied steroids to Mark McGwire says that he think that the baseball slugger was not completely truthful about his steroid confession while telling the reason of using performance-enhancing drugs in his interview with Bob Costas on the MLB Network on Jan. 11, 2010.

It was remarked by Wenzlaff said while speaking with ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” on Thursday that McGwire’s goal was to use steroids to get “bigger, faster, stronger” for improving his on-field performance.

From MLB.MLB.Com:

McGwire said in his interview with Costas that “in the winter ‘89 into ‘90, I was given a couple weeks worth, tried it, never thought anything of it, just moved on from it.”

It was only later, following the injury-ravaged 1993-94 seasons that McGwire says he once again began using PEDs to recover from injury. McGwire contends that his use from ‘94 on was a low-dose regimen designed solely to return him to health, not to augment his performance.

“I chuckled,” Wenzlaff said when asked his reaction to McGwire’s claim that he took steroids to heal from injury. “If excelling and kicking [butt] on the field is the end result, I guess that’s a healthy, good feeling. But for health, there are other things you can take for health that are anabolic, but it wouldn’t be that type of combination.”

Wenzlaff also said he thinks the combination of drugs he provided McGwire would’ve helped his hand-eye coordination.

“When you implement into what you are doing — for instance, hitting — an individualized, specialized program with muscle growth and explosiveness … while you’re on your drugs, it will improve your hand-eye coordination,” he said.

McGwire, the Cardinals’ newly appointed hitting coach, then reintroduced himself to St. Louis fans during the club’s Winter Warm-Up on Sunday and received a standing ovation.

The revelation by Wenzlaff is believed to hurt image of the baseball slugger, once more for sure.

Tony La Russa agreed to come back on a one-year contract with the Cardinals as manager. All of his coaches will also return except for Hal McRae, whom McGwire will substitute.

Tony La Russa stunned everyone last Monday by declaring that Mark McGwire, one of the controversial baseball players of all time will join St. Louis Cardinals as his hitting coach.

McGwire retired from the game on 2001. He hit a record of 70 home runs in 1998, 583 homers and a .263 career average in 2001.

In 1998, a reporter discerned a jar of androstenedione in his locker. During that time, the Major League Baseball did not yet prohibit the steroid precursor. McGwire even acknowledged to its use.

During the US Congressional hearing on the steroids issue, McGwire declined to answer any queries under oath.

McGwire failed to join the reputable Hall of Fame in 2007 coming out on less than 25 percent out of the 545 ballots cast. His baseball heroics were incessantly cast into distrust due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

McGwire did not go to the news conference last Monday at the Busch Stadium. La Russa guarantees that McGwire would not be hiding and evading any questions about steroids in the future.

From The Commercial Appeal:

Mark McGwire is back in baseball, reunited with Tony La Russa as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hitting coach.