Biogenesis II: more players Bud Selig failed to catch but will punish for less than 211 games.

We're still waiting to learn from the Feds which new players are implicated in the scandal.  Major Baseball League (MBL) commissioner Allan Huber "Bud" Selig will eventually punish some players if he can and brag about what a great job he is doing.

NONE of the 13 players suspended in 2013 failed Selig's test for performance enhancing drugs (PED), including steroids.  Alex Rodriguez was the only one who appealed, largely because he was suspended 211 games: the remainder of the 2013 season, in which he had not yet played because of injury, and the entire 2014 season.  His appeal was turned down after the 2013 season and his sentence reduced to the entire 2014 season, 162 games.  See my previous post:

No way Bud Selig hands down another 211 game suspension.  Thursday, August 7, 2014

We now know things that we did not know a year ago, including:
- Selig would announce after the 2013 season that he would stop being commissioner in January 2015;
- Rodriguez had been given permission by the official MBL doctor to use PED in 2007 and 2008.

It seems apparent that Selig wanted to rid himself of Rodriguez completely.  Selig's personal animus towards Rodriguez drove Selig to punish Rodriguez out of all proportion to the punishments he imposed on the other dozen players.
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Melky Cabrera playing for the Giants
June 23, 2012
by X Wad via Wikimedia Commons

Amazingly, the most recent incompetent attorney for Rodriguez announced yesterday that the new revelations would help A-Rod achieve closure.  Say what?  How about asking for the sentence to be commuted because of mitigating circumstances (prior league approval) and the extraordinary length of the suspension?  Did A-Rod get fat and lazy?   Does he no longer cares about playing in 2014?

A little more on just how ineffective Selig's anti-PED program has been.  This week on ESPN radio Michael Kay stated that Melky Cabrera failed his drug test in 2012 because he thought the next game was at night but it was a day game.  So is Melky clean in 2014 or did he continue to use his exact same regimen but follow his Toronto team's schedule more carefully?  Melky is having another fine season and will be a free agent again after this season as he was after his suspension season.  Any takers?  In 2012 Melky was MVP of the All Star game, which provided home field/rule advantage in the finals to his Giant team, which won the tournament that season with a four game sweep of Detroit in the finals.  Melky had the highest batting average in the entire MBL in 2012 but, in order to rehabilitate his image, asked that he not be so recognized.  Melky then signed a two year contract with Toronto for $16 million.