Chapter[ VIII. Information Obtained Regarding Other Players’ Possession or Use of
Steroids and Human Growth Hormone ]
Section[ Ryan Franklin ]
Ryan Franklin
Ryan Franklin is a pitcher who has played with four teams in Major League
Baseball since 1999, the Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and St. Louis
Cardinals.
Radomski said that Ron Villone referred Franklin to him. Villone and Franklin
were teammates in 2004 with the Seattle Mariners. Villone called Radomski and told him to
send Anavar and Deca-Durabolin to Franklin, and Radomski did so.
On August 2, 2005, Ryan Franklin was suspended for ten games for a positive test
for anabolic steroids that was conducted in May 2005.402 Upon the announcement of Franklin’s
suspension, he is reported to have said he had no idea how he tested positive.403 Franklin added:
There has to be a flaw in the system. I have no clue. I tested in [early]
May and again three weeks later. The first was positive, the second was
negative. There is a flaw in the testing or my urine got mixed up with
somebody else’s. They said that couldn’t happen but I don’t believe it.
I just know deep in my heart that I’d never do anything like that.404
In order to provide Franklin 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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