Former AL MVP Mo Vaughn admits to taking human growth hormone

Former American League MVP Mo Vaughn fessed up to claims in the Mitchell Report that he used performance-enhancing drugs, nearly 20 years after its initial release.In an interview with The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, the former Met admitted to using human growth hormone (HGH) in an attempt to prolong his MLB career.“I was trying to do everything I could,” Vaughn said.“I knew I had a bad, degenerative knee.

I was shooting HGH in my knee.Whatever I could do to help the process.”The three-time All-Star played 12 years in the league, spending eight of them with the Red Sox, where he had his years and swatted 230 home runs.

He won the MVP in 1995.He then left the Red Sox and joined the Angels on a then-record six-year, $80 million deal. His first season with the Angels was where his health troubles began, when he injured his ankle and knee while chasing a pop-up in foul territory and wound up falling down the steps of the dugout. The injury came two batters into the season’s opening game.He later missed all of the 2001 season and retired in 2003 because of knee troubles after two lackluster seasons with the Mets.In the midst of his battle with his own body, he made three HGH purchases in 2001 in an effort to get healthier and stay in the league for a bit longer. The evidence was reported in 2007 in the Mitchell Report, a 409-page report written by former U.S.

Sen.George J.

Mitchell of Maine that cited 89 players in an investigation of steroid use.A former Mets batboy and clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski is said in the report to have provided Vaughn with the HGH — but he never provided him any “steroids” by definition.He didn’t sell steroids to Vaughn because Vaughn was “afraid of the big needles,” and the HGH allowed him to use smaller needles to inject into his troubled knee.HGH was not banned by MLB until 2005, which was two years after Vaughn’s final career game....