Francisco Cervelli would like
us to believe that he did not use performance-enhancing drugs. That would be a
lot easier to do if he weren’t contradicting himself.
The candidate for the New
York Yankees starting catcher job would have loved to come into spring training
only getting questions about whether he would win the job. Instead, he spent
most of a press conference yesterday answering inquiries about why he visited a
Miami clinic that has now embroiled many baseball players in yet another PED scandal. Cervelli said he went to the clinic in the hopes of finding a cure for
a foot injury, but walked away with nothing, not even the supplements he said
he received in a previous statement. Talk about a contradiction.
Cervelli doesn’t get the
benefit of the doubt, at least not from me, because he can't keep his stories straight, he has been with the Yankees
organization for years and because he is friends with Alex Rodriguez, a known
cheater. To my great displeasure, the Yankees have become the poster team for
PED use and the fact that so many current and former Yankees are on that Miami
client list only solidifies that bad rep.
The catcher refused to give
many details, including who recommended the clinic to him, although he denied
that ARod sent him in that direction. We didn’t get the full story yesterday,
not even close to it, so it’s hard to believe Cervelli at this point. And while
Joe Girardi said he didn’t feel the need to speak to his catcher about the
controversy, the whole mess could continue to be a major distraction for
Cervelli and the Yankees.
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