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Clemens’ name was mentioned 82 times in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. In the report, McNamee stated that during the 1998, 2000 and 2001 baseball seasons, he injected Clemens with Winstrol. JH/Metro
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Clemens’ name was mentioned 82 times in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. In the report, McNamee stated that during the 1998, 2000 and 2001 baseball seasons, he injected Clemens with Winstrol. JH/Metro
MLB. It’s been 12 years since Roger Clemens last donned a Sox uniform, and many of the connections he had in Boston have moved on to either retirement or other baseball settings.
Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield stands as the last regular player on the 25-man roster who was a teammate of Clemens in the Hub. Reliever Mike Timlin is another current Red Sox that was teammates with Clemens during the fateful 1997 season in Toronto and enjoyed a front row seat for the mound resurgence that has come under scrutiny by baseball observers and members of the U.S. Congress alike.
While Wakefield declined comment on the topic, Timlin didn’t shy away from it.
“It stinks that it actually happened, or that it’s happening now,” Timlin said. “I know all of the guys involved very well, and I played throughout this whole era when all this crap was coming out.
“I had a bad year last year and I was looking at myself going, ‘I’m having a bad year this year: Are people going to keep at me and say that I’ve stopped taking supplements or I’ve stopped taking stuff?’ which I’ve never done in the first place,” added Timlin. “I’m almost guilty by association, even though I’ve never done anything and I’m not in the group.”
The Rocket went 10-13 with a 3.63 ERA for a pathetic Sox team in 1996, but then bolted via free agency and went 21-7 with a 2.05 ERA while capturing his fourth Cy Young Award the following season.
The jump in statistical numbers as well as testimony provided by his former trainer Brian McNamee during the Mitchell Investigation have cast a pall of doubt over the legitimacy of Clemens post-1996 achievements. But that shadow of doubt hasn’t crept up on his teammates.
“Roger, like he said at the hearing, everyone that crosses his path he treats like family and he treated me that way when we played together in Toronto,” Timlin said. “I haven’t lost an ounce of respect for the guy.”
“We’re both from Texas so we have that connection. I fully support the guy, and I feel badly for what’s happening,” added Timlin. “I don’t think anything that happened during his career should be changed now.”
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