Adrian Beltre didn’t appreciate Eric Gagne’s claim that 80 per cent of his teammates with the Los Angeles Dodgers were using performance-enhancing drugs.
Beltre, who was teammates with Gagne from 1999-2004, did not agree with Gagne’s approach and believes he should have been more specific in his declaration.
“He should have mentioned names,” Beltre told Richard Durrett of ESPNDallas.com. “I know for sure I’m not one of them. I haven’t read the book. I’m not interested in it.”
Gagne discussed his usage of PEDs at the end of his career in his biography ‘Game Over: The Story of Eric Gagne’, which is written in French. The Montreal native admitted using human-growth hormone for the first time in 2010, three years after being named in the Mitchell Report.
“My French is not too good,” Beltre said to ESPNDallas.com. “Everybody has the right to say whatever they say. If they feel the need to write a book about it, what can I say?”
Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura was teammates with the Canadian pitcher in 2003-04 with the Dodgers and he did not sound sure that his claims were accurate.
“Apparently, I’m the 20 per cent,” Ventura told MLB.com. “I don’t, I mean, I was never around it. So it’s just one of those (things) that maybe he knows something I don’t.
“I think that’s different than what he’s talking about. But it’s just his own business and what he perceives. But I guess I’m going to have to go back and look at the roster.”
