Mike Trout: Ban PED users for life
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If Los Angeles Angels superstar Mike Trout were baseball's commissioner, Alex
Rodriguez would be banned from the sport for life.
"To me, personally, I think you should be out of the game if you get caught,"
Trout said Monday during an interview with New York radio station WFAN. "It
takes away from the guys that are working hard every day and doing it
all-natural."
Rodriguez currently is appealing a 211-game suspension, which runs through
the 2014 season, for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy. The
three-time MVP has appeared in five games this season with the New York
Yankees and homered in Sunday's victory over the Detroit Tigers.
Trout, the American League Rookie of the Year last season, told WFAN that he
is frustrated by players who use performance-enhancing drugs.
"Some people just are just trying to find that extra edge," Trout told the
radio station. "It's tough as a guy that goes out there and plays hard every
day and puts [in] 110 percent effort ... to wake up, see there's a list of
guys that are on the list. It's good that MLB caught them and they're moving
in the right direction with suspensions and stuff."
Trout and the Angels will start a four-game series against the Yankees on
Monday in New York. He declined to reiterate his comments later Monday in the
Angels' clubhouse, repeatedly deflecting questions to team player
representative C.J. Wilson.
"You're going to have to talk to C.J., our rep in the clubhouse," Trout told
reporters. "I don't want to talk about it anymore."
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