Jenrry Mejia blames 'conspiracy' for his lifetime ban

By frank




Jenrry Mejia earned a lifetime ban from baseball after a third failed PED test in February.
I was framed!

So says steroid-stained relief pitcher Jenrry Mejia, the first major leaguer to be permanently banned from the game by Major League Baseball for violating the Joint Drug Agreement three times.


In an interview with The New York Times for a story posted online Friday, the Dominican-born pitcher said through an interpreter that baseball officials told him if he filed an appeal after his second positive test (in 2015), MLB would “find a way to find a third positive.”

“I felt there was a conspiracy against me. I feel that they were trying to find something to bring me down in my career,” Mejia said in the Times report.

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The righthander, who played for the Mets since 2007, received the lifetime ban last month after the third positive test, the last for hard-core steroid boldenone.

The first two positive tests were for stanozolol, the drug Canadian Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson made famous in 1988.

Dan Halem, MLB’s chief legal officer, told the Daily News Friday that Mejia’s allegation could not be further from the truth.

“Major League Baseball vigorously denies the allegation. No one from MLB has ever spoken to Mr. Mejia. We're not going to have any further comment because the process regarding positive tests is confidential per the Joint Drug Agreement,” said Halem.