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Sometime in mid-September 2000, a cl
ubhouse employee with the Arizona
Diamondbacks discovered a bottle of anabolic ster
oids and several hundred pills in a package
that had been mailed to the Diamondbacks’ ballp
ark in Phoenix. Clubhouse attendants knew that
the package had been intended for Alex Cabrera,
then a player on Arizona’s major league roster,
who had been searching for the package for seve
ral days. They gave the box to the team’s
athletic trainer and told Cabrera that
the package probably had been lost.
After he learned of the incident, Joe
Garagiola, Jr., the Diamondbacks’ general
manager at the time, reported the discovery to
The Commissioner’s
Office retrieved the package and sent the drugs
to the Drug Enforcement Administration for
evaluation, which confirmed that the vial contained
Winstrol (stanozolol), an
injectable anabolic
steroid, and that the pills in the
ounter diet pills.
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By the time the DEA confirmed that the shipment to Cabrera had contained
steroids, his contract had been
sold to the Seibu Lions in the
Japan League. Manfred therefore
did not seek permission from the Players Associat
ion to subject Cabrera to “reasonable cause” testing for steroids.
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