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Zimmerman: "It's great to see these guys get in trouble for what they've done"

August 05, 2013, 2:06pm

Perhaps not surprisingly, the reactions inside the clubhouses to today's sweeping suspensions handed down by Major League Baseball for players' involvement with Biogenesis were very wide-ranging. Some, like Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche and the Braves' B.J. Upton, had no interest in discussing the 13 suspensions and the fallout from players getting caught using performance-enhancers. "I'm so over it. I don't even care anymore," LaRoche said. "Literally don't care." Others...

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MLB finds "no violations" by Gonzalez in Biogenesis investigation (with statement)

August 05, 2013, 11:37am

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MLB finds "no violations" by Gonzalez in Biogenesis investigation (with statement)

After months of waiting, we finally have the official list of players suspended by Major League Baseball for their involvement in the purchase of performance-enhancing drugs from Biogenesis, a now-shuttered anti-aging clinic in the Miami area. And Gio Gonzalez isn't on it. MLB formally announced that they have found "no violations of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program" by Gonzalez. As a result, he will not be suspended. Gonzalez's name had appeared in the personal notebooks...

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Report: Suspension unlikely for Gonzalez in Biogenesis scandal (game update)

June 04, 2013, 4:28pm

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Report: Suspension unlikely for Gonzalez in Biogenesis scandal (game update)

Dating back to the very early stages of spring training this year, the Nationals have said - both on and off the record - that they had confidence that Gio Gonzalez wasn't going to be disciplined by Major League Baseball for his involvement with Biogenesis, an anti-aging clinic in the Miami area that allegedly distributed performance-enhancing drugs to players. ESPN is reporting tonight that MLB has gotten the cooperation of Tony Bosch, the founder of Biogenesis, and that the league office...

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Gio Gonzalez says blood, urine tests for PEDs came back negative

February 22, 2013, 8:25am

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Gio Gonzalez says blood, urine tests for PEDs came back negative

VIERA, Fla. - Gio Gonzalez has received word from the Major League Baseball Players Association that he has tested negative for performance-enhancing drugs. Two days after the Miami New Times listed Gonzalez among a group of players linked to Biogenesis, a Miami-area anti-aging clinic that was allegedly supplying performance-enhancing substances to players, Gonzalez had both his blood and urine tested by MLB. The Nationals left-hander, who finished third in the National League Cy Young...

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Impact of the newest report on Gonzalez, Biogenesis

February 20, 2013, 2:57am

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Impact of the newest report on Gonzalez, Biogenesis

VIERA, Fla. - Some might wonder whether yesterday's ESPN report claiming Gio Gonzalez did not receive performance-enhancers from Biogenesis, a Miami-area anti-aging clinic, will have any effect on Gonzalez as the Nationals lefty prepares for the season. Will it lift a weight off Gonzalez's shoulders? Will the report get rid of a distraction that has lingered around the Nationals' clubhouse for the last week and a half, since large clusters of players started filing into camp? Those two...

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Report: Gonzalez did not receive PEDs from Biogenesis

February 19, 2013, 3:42pm

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Report: Gonzalez did not receive PEDs from Biogenesis

VIERA, Fla. - Ever since being linked to Biogenesis, a Miami-area anti-aging clinic that allegedly was supplying performance-enhancing drugs to major league players, and its founder, Tony Bosch, Gio Gonzalez has denied any wrongdoing or PED usage. "At the end of the day," Gonzalez said a week ago, "I've never taken performance-enhancing drugs, and I never will." A report from ESPN's "Outside the Lines" backs up Gonzalez's claim. The report cites two sources familiar with Bosch's...

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Gonzalez "very confident" he'll be cleared despite link to PED clinic

February 12, 2013, 6:15am

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Gonzalez "very confident" he'll be cleared despite link to PED clinic

VIERA, Fla. - After arriving here yesterday and taking part in a workout at Nationals camp this morning, Gio Gonzalez met with reporters and repeated the same message he delivered in a statement a couple weeks ago: He has never taken performance-enhancing drugs. Gonzalez talked with reporters for 15 minutes just a bit ago in the home dugout at Space Coast Stadium, and said that he's fully cooperated with Major League Baseball's investigation into his relationship with Biogenesis, a...

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Some more on Ramos' health, Gonzalez's future

February 06, 2013, 5:03am

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Some more on Ramos' health, Gonzalez's future

Just a couple of hours after the Nationals announced that they had signed veteran catcher Chris Snyder to a minor league contract yesterday, a deal that provides even more depth should Wilson Ramos' surgically repaired right knee not allow him to be ready opening day, Ramos sent out a couple tweets. One of the tweets, written in Spanish, roughly translates to the following: "Almost green-lighted to enter action, thank you my God." No, I didn't translate that myself. The Internet helped....