Chapter[ VIII. Information Obtained Regarding Other Players’ Possession or Use of
Steroids and Human Growth Hormone ]
Section[ Jason Grimsley ]
Jason Grimsley
Jason Grimsley pitched for seven different teams in Major League Baseball
between 1989 and 2006, the Philadelphia Phillies (3 seasons), Cleveland Indians (3 seasons),
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California Angels (1 season), New York Yankees (2 seasons), Kansas City Royals (4 seasons),
Baltimore Orioles (2 seasons), and Arizona Diamondbacks (1 season). As previously discussed,
he was released by the Diamondbacks after it was publicly revealed that a federal search warrant
had been executed upon his residence in 2006.397
Kirk Radomski remembered meeting Jason Grimsley in 2000 when Grimsley was
pitching for the Yankees. In our first interview, conducted before Radomski obtained complete
records from his banks, Radomski estimated he had engaged in at least seven or eight sales to
Grimsley involving human growth hormone, Deca-Durabolin, and diet pills from 2000 through
2003. Radomski ultimately produced fourteen checks written by Grimsley (including cashier’s
checks for which Grimsley was the remitter) from June 2, 2001 through July 29, 2005, totaling
$35,400. All are included in the Appendix. One is shown below.
Grimsley’s name, with several addresses and telephone numbers, is listed in the
address book that was seized from Radomski’s residence by federal agents.
397 Associated Press, Around the Majors; Feds Search Grimsley’s Residence, L.A. Times,
June 7, 2006, at D4; see supra at 106-08.
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Brian McNamee stated that in 2000, while he was catching in the Yankee bullpen,
Grimsley showed him a white bottle he said he had received from a pharmacist in Seattle.
Grimsley said the substance was “Winni 5,” which McNamee understood to be Winstrol tablets
at 5 milligram dosage. McNamee advised Grimsley that steroids, taken orally, could be toxic.
As previously discussed, on June 6, 2006 federal agents executed a search warrant
at Grimsley’s home in Scottsdale, Arizona.398 The warrant was obtained after Grimsley decided
to stop cooperating with federal agents; before that decision, Grimsley had been interviewed by
the agents for two hours and reportedly admitted using steroids, human growth hormone, and
clenbuterol over an extended period during his career in Major League Baseball.399 Among
other things, Grimsley cited his use of the anabolic steroid Deca-Durabolin, saying he used it to
recover from shoulder surgery in 2000.
In order to provide Grimsley with information about these allegations and to give
him an opportunity to respond, I asked him to meet with me; he declined.
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