Former Met/Oriole/Diego kin David Segui, who the Baltimore Sun’s Roch Kubatko admits, “always seems to hear from me when another steroid story breaks” throws a bit of cold water on the notion MLB clubs are complicit in the use of PED’s (link swiped from Repoz and Baseball Think Factory).
I found it interesting that Segui, who played for just about everyone during his major league career, rated the Orioles as the most conservative team when it came to dispensing medication to players. He noted that you practically had to “beg” to get a cortisone injection.
“I give them credit,” he said. “They didn’t put you at risk.”
He laughed at the notion that the Orioles could have someone in their clubhouse providing banned substances to players. Segui insists that wasn’t the case when he played, and he’s certain that it’s not happening now.
“If that’s true,” he said, “why would anyone order stuff over the Internet?”
Segui still takes prescription hGH every day because his knees are such a mess. It provides relief from the pain and inflammation. He’s able to squat 285 pounds after being unable to go higher than 135 — a weight he’d do once on a good day because he couldn’t bend .
“That’s the only reason guys take it,” he said. “People don’t want to hear this, but you don’t get bigger and stronger off it. You don’t get that big steroid look, that bulky look.”