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Cards GM discusses report with Glaus
Mozeliak says third baseman's past steroid use is 'dead issue'By Bobbie Dittmeier / MLB.com
04/14/09 7:50 AM ET
Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak met with Troy Glaus on Monday to discuss a newspaper report that said the third baseman told authorities that he used steroids in 2003 and 2004 to help him recover from shoulder injuries."I think he's very well aware of the decisions he's made in the past and he is not going to duplicate that again," Mozeliak said after meeting with Glaus in Phoenix, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"I've gotten to know Troy over the past year and I trust that he's going to work as hard [on his current rehab] as he can to get back. ... In terms of what rose over the weekend, it's a dead issue."
The New York Times reported on Saturday that in 2005, Glaus told federal officials, who were investigating a doctor from California who allegedly prescribed steroids for Glaus and other players, that he used banned substances to assist in his return from shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum and rotator cuff in his right shoulder in 2003, when he played for the Angels.
Glaus, who hit 27 homers and had 99 RBIs last season, his first with the Cardinals, injured the shoulder again and underwent arthroscopic debridement in January. He is rehabbing with a private trainer in Phoenix, where the Cardinals opened a three-game series against the Diamondbacks on Monday.
Glaus declined to comment on specifics of the Times' report, according to the Post-Dispatch.
"At this point, there is no reason [to go over the past]. I'm not going to comment," Glaus said. "I'm in there [the gym]. I'm doing my exercises, and I'm going to do everything I can to get back as soon as I possibly can. From the exercises I'm doing now or working out -- whatever it is I have to do so that when I come back, I'm ready to play."
Mozeliak said he was satisfied that there would be no parallels between Glaus' 2003 rehab and his current one.
"I made it very clear that this is something that was in the past and Major League Baseball has dealt with it, and that the Cardinals organization acknowledges that and don't expect it to come up again," Mozeliak said. "We understand moving forward that he is committed to this program and getting back to St. Louis as quickly as possible."
Glaus is expected to be sidelined at least until June.
Bobbie Dittmeier is an editor/reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
