Rodriguez Drug-Ban Talks Rebuffed by Baseball, Daily News Says
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Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees faces a suspension through at least next season after Major League Baseball officials rebuffed his request to negotiate a ban for drug use, the Daily News of New York reported.
Rodriguez, who has baseball’s richest contract at 10 years and $275 million and leads active players with 647 home runs, was turned away after comments in a news conference last night in which he questioned the motives of MLB and the Yankees in looking into his involvement with a shuttered anti-aging clinic in Florida linked to providing performance-enhancing substances to ballplayers, the newspaper said on its website, citing an unidentified person in baseball familiar with the case.