02-20-2009, 11:34 AM
He also spent the entire 2007 season working with a trainer who was known to distribute steroids and is banned from all MLB clubhouses. This is from an MLB.com article. The story was first reported by the New York Daily News.
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->A trainer banned from Major League Baseball clubhouses for an incident involving performance-enhancing drugs has been a close associate of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez for several years, so close that a source said he accompanied Rodriguez most of his 2007 MVP season, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
The report quoted sources saying Angel Presinal, banned from MLB clubhouses ever since an unmarked bag of steroids was linked to him in October 2001, spent much of 2007 traveling with the third baseman, even staying in the same room as Yuri Sucart -- the cousin identified as the one Rodriguez claimed acquired and injected him with steroids in 2001-03 while he was with the Rangers.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->A trainer banned from Major League Baseball clubhouses for an incident involving performance-enhancing drugs has been a close associate of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez for several years, so close that a source said he accompanied Rodriguez most of his 2007 MVP season, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
The report quoted sources saying Angel Presinal, banned from MLB clubhouses ever since an unmarked bag of steroids was linked to him in October 2001, spent much of 2007 traveling with the third baseman, even staying in the same room as Yuri Sucart -- the cousin identified as the one Rodriguez claimed acquired and injected him with steroids in 2001-03 while he was with the Rangers.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->