Clemens report: Later-career numbers due to adjustments, not steroids

[Southpaw]

Where does Clemens find these guys? Wouldn't it be cheaper for Roider to fess up and save his money rather than throw it at these a-clowns?

This "report" actually comes off as a testimony to the benefits of roids and HGH. WTH are they thinking?

Clemens report: Later-career numbers due to adjustments, not steroids

Associated Press

Updated: January 28, 2008, 7:57 AM ET



NEW YORK -- Roider Clemens' agent released an 18,000-word statistical report Monday to refute allegations that the pitcher's career rebounded around the time period he was accused of using performance-enhancing drugs.


Roger Clemens and his agents are going to great lengths to try and prove that his longevity had nothing to do with steroids, Buster Olney writes.

"Clemens' longevity was due to his ability to adjust his style of pitching as he got older, incorporating his very effective split-finger fastball to offset the decrease in the speed of his regular fastball caused by aging,'' said the report, created by Randy Hendricks and two associates at his firm.

Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, claimed in last month's Mitchell report on drugs in baseball that he injected the pitcher with steroids and human growth hormone at least 16 times in 1998, 2000 and 2001. Clemens vehemently denies the allegations, and Clemens and McNamee are among five witnesses scheduled to testify before a House committee on Feb. 13. Clemens also has sued McNamee for defamation.

Hendricks' report, which includes 38 charts, in some ways resembles a salary arbitration case. One of the charts shows Clemens' ERA was lower than the league average in all but two of his 23 major league seasons. The report also compares variations in Clemens' career with those of Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling and Nolan Ryan, and maintains slumps often can be correlated with injuries.

"Of the six years that feature Clemens' best ERA margins, two occurred in Boston, after he had been in the major leagues for several years; two occurred in his two years in Toronto; and two occurred after he switched leagues and pitched for the Houston Astros,'' the report said.

Clemens went 40-39 in his last four seasons with the Red Sox, and when the pitcher left Boston's general manager at the time, Dan Duquette, said Clemens was in the "twilight'' of his career. Clemens was 192-111 with the Red Sox and won three Cy Young Awards and an MVP, then went 162-73 with Toronto, the New York Yankees and Houston, winning four Cy Youngs.

"Clemens was far from being in the 'twilight of his career' or 'washed up' in 1996, as some have speculated,'' the report said. "During the 1996 season Clemens ranked first in strikeouts in the American League and tied his own record by striking out 20 batters in Detroit on Sept. 18, 1996. In addition, he ranked sixth in the AL in ERA, second in the AL in hits per nine innings, and fifth in innings pitched. This performance cannot be reasonably categorized as a 'twilight.'''

 

[devilfan02]

Comical. Clemens is the biggest blowhard ever

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Now this is just getting bizarre.

Report: McNamee says he injected Clemens' wife


WASHINGTON (AP) - Brian McNamee told congressional investigators he injected Roger Clemens' wife with human growth hormone as she prepared for a Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition photo session five years ago, the New York Daily News reported Friday.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7776542?MSNHPHMA

 

[Southpaw]

The family that injects together , sticks together.

 

[Dback Jon]

So, did they shoot up Kody in High School as well?

 

[Scott MS]

Now this is just getting bizarre.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7776542?MSNHPHMA

By the way, Clemen's wife has now admitted taking the HGH. Yet, Roger never took it??

 

[Southpaw]

By the way, Clemen's wife has now admitted taking the HGH. Yet, Roger never took it??

Hmmm. Dead link. What was in it?

Pettite admitted it. The wife admitted it. But not Roger, yet he is the one with the Mardi Gras float sized head. Yah Roger. Maybe Kody will be the next to take the heat for you.

 

[ajcardfan]

I guess we're supposed to beleive that this McNamee guy told the truth about Pettite, yet lied about Clemens? Even though he was the trainer for both and they were all good friends?

Yeah, right Roger.

 

[Southpaw]

Clemens would not lie...would he?

Isn't this the party he was definitely not at? Heh, heh. Busted again Roger.

Report: Man has photo of Clemens at disputed Canseco party

ESPN.com news services

Updated: February 22, 2008, 9:26 PM ET


The 1998 party at Jose Canseco's house in Miami may have started out as a gathering of friends and family. It has turned into an event worthy of congressional testimony and a source of "evidence."

There is a photo of Roger Clemens at Canseco's house during the June 1998 party, according to the New York Daily News -- a photo that would contradict Clemens' sworn testimony that he never attended the party.

Richard Emery, one of the lawyers for Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, said he was aware of the existence of the photo.

"We have reason to believe it's reliable evidence," Emery told the Daily News. "We believe there's photographic evidence that shows Clemens was at a party he says he wasn't at."

Roger Clemens' attorney, Rusty Hardin, issued a statement Friday declining detailed comment because he hadn't seen the photo and said he'd been informed on Feb. 12 by a former Canseco neighbor of his possession of a "photograph of his son with Roger in a pool at a party at Canseco's house."

"I expressed no interest in buying it, but urged [the neighbor] to let our investigator visit with him, view the photograph and interview him. He said he wanted to talk to his son first and would call me back that day. I gave him all of my phone numbers and urged him to call. Unfortunately, I never heard back from him," Hardin said.

Clemens' alleged attendance at the party is a key point in the Clemens-McNamee probe. It is mentioned in the Mitchell report, and was a focal point during the Feb. 13 hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

In the Mitchell report, McNamee said he witnessed Canseco, Clemens and a third, unidentified person talking together, but did not overhear the conversation. McNamee said that some time after the party, "Clemens approached [him] and, for the first time, brought up the subject of using steroids," according to the report.

The crux of the issue is whether Clemens was present at the party, which was hosted by Canseco for his Toronto Blue Jays teammates and their families while they were in town for a series against the Florida Marlins.

Clemens has repeatedly denied being at Canseco's house for that event. But a young man has a photo of Clemens at the party, according to the Daily News. The man was just 11 years old at the time of the party, taking photos of various baseball players in attendance.

McNamee has testified that he clearly recalls Clemens, his wife, nanny and children at Canseco's party, including describing the nanny as wearing a peach bikini and board shorts.

Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, has said he turned over evidence to congressional lawyers, including an affidavit from Canseco, proving Clemens didn't attend Canseco's party.

The House committee is still debating on the next step regarding the steroids investigation. Sources have told the Daily News that they expect the committee to refer the entire matter, not just the Clemens investigation, to the Justice Department.

"We haven't heard anything one way or the other," Hardin told the Daily News.

A House subcommittee, working separately from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is holding a hearing Wednesday on drugs in sports that is set to feature testimony from MLB commissioner Bud Selig, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NBA commissioner David Stern and NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection hearing, originally scheduled for Jan. 23, is similar to one the subcommittee held in May 2005, two months after the reform committee's hearing that featured Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Clemens would not lie...would he?

Isn't this the party he was definitely not at? Heh, heh. Busted again Roger.

Honestly, does anyone really care about whether Roger Clemens attended a party or not??
Am I the only one who finds it ironic and morbid that the biggest liars on the plant - politicians - are pursuing a man about whether he lied, relative to a topic that means nothing anymore?? Does it really matter if Roger Clemens is proved to have been at a party? Does it matter than less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the population might believe Roger is clean??
This whole scene is such a charade!