Who exactly is doing the drug testing of the minor league players?

Major League Baseball has now implemented random drug testing for minor league baseball players.  It’s all part of the plan… the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program to be specific. 

Who will be doing the actual testing?  A company called the National Center for Drug Free Sport.

For those interested in clicking deeper, you can find out the details on Drug Free Sport’s methods of specimen collecting (the SCAN method, Secure Collection Automated Network) and specimen analysis (they test for Anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, drugs of abuse, and masking agents, urine manipulators, adulterants).

Drug Free Sport has a wide clientele indeed.  They are being used by the NCAA, the PGA, MLB and the NBA.

Reyes subpoenaed in case against HGH doctor

Dr Nick Simpsons Apparently, Mets shortstop Jose Reyes was subpoenaed in the case of Canadian Dr Anthony Galea.  Galea, who is not licensed to practice in the U.S. is under investigation for smuggling HGH into the country. 

Reyes isn’t the only one to be subpoenaed.  The list is long and the athletes on it are quite high-profile.  At this point though, Reyes is the only baseball player whose name has come to light:

The doctor’s client list is elite; it includes Tiger Woods, U.S. Olympic swimmer Dara Torres, Broncos quarterback Chris Simms, former Browns running back Jamal Lewis, Mets shortstop Jose Reyes and Donovan Bailey of Canada, who won the 100 meters at the 1996 Olympics.

All the athletes, of course, deny using HGH or any performance enhancing substances provided by Galea. 

What does this mean for Reyes?  Assuming he’s innocent (a prudent assumption until other evidence comes to light), it will be a distraction and depending how long this lasts, at a critical time in the pre-season.  It can only delay his season development with the Mets.

Reyes has already met with the FBI who came to the Port St Lucie spring training grounds.  And when federal officials start visiting ballparks, the media is right behind them.  Not just the normal sports media but news media, too.

If you’re wondering, Reyes went on record denying any involvement with HGH:

"They asked me if he injected me with that. I say ‘No,’" Reyes said. "What we do there, basically, he took my blood out, put it in some machines, spin it out and put it back in my leg. So I explained to them that."

Now Tiger Woods, this is the kind of distraction he probably needs.