Tracky: Baseball has coke problem

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/major-league-baseball-cocaine_us_597b505ae4b02a4ebb75150b

A rookie infielder arrived in the big leagues several years ago, and some of his teammates decided to take him out to a nightclub after a game. Three veteran players ― one of whom is a current MLB All-Star and two of whom played a combined 23 years in the league ― joined him in a cab, and one pulled out a baggie of cocaine. They all did a few bumps, and when they got to the club, began cutting up lines and snorting them on the table. The player, who told me this story under the condition that no one in it be named, ended up with three organizations before retiring last year. During his career, he said, he used cocaine “a handful” of times and marijuana frequently. “Of the 400 days of [big league] service time I had, I probably smoked on 150 of them,” he told me. “A lot of guys would wake up at 9 a.m. and smoke, but I never wanted to do anything mind-altering until after the game.”

Jordany Valdespin? 2012 rookie infielder, 3 orgs (NYM, MIA, DET), though not exactly retired (playing in Mexico). All Star (Turner) + I don't know, Andres Torres + Santana = ~23 years

[bmfc1]

Martino wrote the article which makes it more likely that the source was an ex-Met or Phillie as those are the teams he covered.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: “Of the 400 days of [big league] service time I had, I probably smoked on 150 of them,” he told me. “A lot of guys would wake up at 9 a.m. and smoke, but I never wanted to do anything mind-altering until after the game.” Jordany Valdespin? 2012 rookie infielder, 3 orgs (NYM, MIA, DET), though not exactly retired (playing in Mexico). All Star (Turner) + I don't know, Andres Torres + Santana = ~23 years

I was thinking when I was reading that article yesterday that the 'infielder - now retired - 400 days of ML service, etc.' description is only vaguely disguising things and that it shouldn't take too much research to narrow that down quite quickly if one were of a mind to do so.
Valdespin amassed just a bit more than half of that 400 days of service time mentioned. It's also tough to see him talking to too many reporters ... or vice versa.

[Edgy MD]

Jordanny turned out to play more outfield than infield, thought he certainly mostly played infield in the minors.

Josh Satin? Nick Evans?

Not that you can't work around it, but Mets ownership strikes me as folks who'd plant a narc among the players. I'm disappointed that Tracky's paper didn't.

[ashie62]

One could get an attention deficit disorder waiver and crank away on Adderall.

Nothing would surprise me.

[Edgy MD]

Sure but the story explicitly points to bags o' coke.

[ashie62]

The original Mets dope fiend was Joe Foy.