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JASON GRIMSELY SAID ROGER CLEMENS, ANDY PETTITTE, MIGUEL TEJADA, BRIAN

ROBERTS, AND JAY GIBBONS TOOK PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS AND STEROIDS

Major League Baseball: You've Come a Long Way, Baby

THE L.A. TIMES BROKE THE EXPLOSIVE STORY.

JASON GRIMSLEY SAID HE GOT STEROIDS FROM FORMER YANKEE TRAINER, BRIAN

McNAMEE, WHO IS PERSONAL STRENGTH COACH FOR BOTH CLEMENS AND PIAZZA

Los Angeles Times: Clemens, Others Implicated in Banned Drug Case

Roger Clemens, 44, one of professional baseball's most durable and

successful pitchers, is among six players accused by a former

teammate of using performance-enhancing drugs, The Times has

learned. The names had been blacked out in an affidavit filed in

federal court.

Others whose identities had been concealed include Clemens' fellow

Houston Astros pitcher, Andy Pettitte, and former American League

Most Valuable Player Miguel Tejada of the Baltimore Orioles.

The discovery ends four months of speculation surrounding the

possible identities of Major League Baseball figures whose names

were redacted from a search warrant affidavit filed in Phoenix on

May 31. The document was based on statements made to federal agents

by pitcher Jason Grimsley.

Grimsley, a journeyman relief pitcher who has played on several

teams including the New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles and the

Angels, acknowledged using steroids, amphetamines and other drugs,

investigators said in the document. He also implicated a number of

former teammates, but the names were blacked out in copies of the

affidavit that were made public in June after investigators used

the warrant to raid Grimsley's house.

A source with authorized access to an unredacted affidavit allowed

The Times to see it, but retained it to read back what had been

blacked out of the public copies. A second source and confidante of

Grimsley had previously disclosed player identities and provided

additional details about the affidavit. The sources insisted on

anonymity.

According to the affidavit, Grimsley told investigators that

Clemens and Pettitte "used athletic performance-enhancing drugs."

He also said Tejada used anabolic steroids.

Clemens and Pettitte did not respond to requests for comment made

Saturday through their agents and the Astros. Tejada had previously

declined to be interviewed.

Grimsley was detained after he allegedly received an illegal

shipment of human growth hormones. The shipment was tracked to his

Scottsdale, Ariz., home by a task force of federal agents

investigating drug use in professional baseball, the affidavit

said.

For a time, Grimsley secretly cooperated with investigators, they

said, but stopped after retaining a lawyer.

According to the 20-page search warrant affidavit signed by IRS

Special Agent Jeff Novitzky, Grimsley told investigators he

obtained amphetamines, anabolic steroids and human growth hormones

from a source recommended to him by former Yankee trainer Brian

McNamee. The former team trainer is a personal strength coach for

both Clemens and Pettitte.

McNamee did not return multiple messages left with his wife and on

his answering machine.

The affidavit also alleges that Grimsley told federal agents that

his former Oriole teammates -- Tejada, Brian Roberts and Jay

Gibbons -- "took anabolic steroids." Roberts was the American

League's All-Star second baseman in 2005 when Grimsley was an

Oriole.

All three Baltimore players declined to be interviewed. Roberts

said he had "nothing to talk about" and didn't know why Grimsley

named him. A sixth player, retired outfielder David Segui

previously came forward to say that his name was among those

blacked out in the affidavit provided to the public. Segui told

ESPN in June that he used HGH on the advice of his doctor as

recently as the 2004 season. He did not obtain approval from the

league, he acknowledged.

Government officials have declined to comment about either their

ongoing investigation of drugs in professional baseball.

Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner who came out of

retirement to pitch for the Astros in each of the last two years,

was a teammate of Grimsley on the Yankees in 1999-2000, as was

Pettitte, a two-time All-Star who is nearing 200 career wins.

Grimsley, Tejada, Gibbons and Roberts were teammates in Baltimore

during the 2005 season.

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