A-Rod

A-Rod at the center of baseball once again. Facing a season-long suspension, Alex Rodriguez sues MLB and
the Players Association. Photo credit CBS 

by Jack Ballard

Alex Rodriguez is one of the most skilled, highly paid players in MLB, but recent allegations have put this superstar on the bench for all of the 2014 season. 


Rodriguez was accused of using performance enhancing drugs, as recently as his 2012 season with his current team, the New York Yankees. He denies all of these recent charges. Alex had already admitted to using these types of drugs in his 2003 season with the Texas Rangers. He was already given a 211 game suspension, but last Saturday it was reduced to only 162 games. This is the longest suspension in Major League Baseball history. Many are angered by this, exclaiming that other players going to the same biogenesis clinic, in Florida, only received a fifty game suspension. 

While, others agree with the MLB's decision, saying that doping is wrong and he got what he deserved. In a recent interview A-Rod proclaimed,"The number of games sadly comes as no surprise, as the deck has been stacked against me from day one, this is one man's decision, that was not put before a fair and impartial jury, does not involve me having failed a single drug test, is at odds with the facts and is inconsistent with the terms of the Joint Drug Agreement and the Basic Agreement, and relies on testimony and documents that would never have been allowed in any court in the United States because they are false and wholly unreliable." 

With this suspension, the thirty-eight year old infielder might be coming to his final inning.