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Players with Yankees ties in the Mitchell Report

December 14, 2007

ROGER CLEMENS

2007 team: Yankees

One of the game's greatest pitchers, he ranks eighth on the career wins list with 354 and owns a record seven Cy Young Awards. According to former Blue Jays and Yankees strength and conditioning coach Brian McNamee, from the time that McNamee injected Clemens - then with the Jays - with Winstrol through the end of the 1998 season, Clemens' performance showed remarkable improvement. During this time, Clemens reportedly told McNamee that the steroids "had a pretty good effect" on him. McNamee told investigators that "during the middle of the 2000 season, Clemens made it clear that he was ready to use steroids again. During the latter part of the regular season, McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times with testosterone from a bottle labeled either Sustanon 250 or Deca-Durabolin."

Ricky Bones

2007: Out of baseball

In late June 2000, a clubhouse attendant with the Florida Marlins brought a paper bag to the club's athletic trainers that had been found in the locker of Bones (pronounced BONE-es). The bag contained more than two dozen syringes, six vials of injectable medications - stanozolol and nandrolone decanoate, two anabolic steroids that are sold under the names Winstrol and Deca-Durabolin, respectively - and a page of handwritten instructions on how to administer the drugs.

Kevin Brown

2007 team: Out of baseball

Brown was placed on the disabled list in June 2001 with a neck injury and in July 2001 with an elbow injury. After he got hurt, he called former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski and asked for human growth hormone. Radomski sent HGH to Brown and in return received a package containing $8,000 in cash. According to Radomski, in the next two or three years, he sold performance-enhancing substances to Brown five or six times. Radomski recalled that Brown usually purchased multiple kits of HGH, paying with cash. At one point, Brown asked Radomski for Deca-Durabolin to help with an ailing elbow, and Radomski sold it to him.

Jose Canseco

2007 team: Out of baseball

An admitted steroids user, in his 2005 book "Juiced," Canseco said he injected Mark McGwire with steroids and introduced several other players to the drugs, leading to a March 2005 congressional hearing on the issue. The former slugger, one of several players who testified at the hearing, also implicated Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriguez. Canseco has said he spoke with George Mitchell as part of the former Senate Majority Leader's investigation.

Jason Giambi

2007 team: Yankees

Under threat of discipline from commissioner Bud Selig, Giambi became the first active player known to have spoken with George Mitchell when he interviewed on July 13 after he appeared to admit using steroids in a USA Today report. "I will address my own personal history regarding steroids. I will not discuss in any fashion any other individual," Giambi said in a statement issued by the players association. Testified to the BALCO grand jury in December 2003 that he used steroids obtained from Greg Anderson and used HGH, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in December 2004.

Jason Grimsley

2007 team: Out of baseball

Grimsley admitted he used HGH, steroids and amphetamines, according to a May 2006 affidavit by IRS special agent Jeff Novitzky. Authorities tracked a package containing HGH to Grimsley's house that April 19. Grimsley, according to Novitzky, implicated other players in drug use. After his home was raided by federal agents in June 2006, Grimsley asked Arizona to release him, and the team complied.

Glenallen Hill

2007: Out of baseball