A few days old now but it may help to explain some unexplainable things regarding FA's this offseason. Ya know like, "why didn't so and so get an offer" or "why didn't so and so get a better offer" or perhaps "I don't understand why so and so didn't re-sign with what's his team". That sort of unexplainable.

Care to guess who?

Report: 11 players named in Mitchell's steroids probe
ESPN.com news services

Updated: November 8, 2007, 6:09 PM ET

Eleven current free agents will be named in former Senator George Mitchell's report on steroids use in baseball and all 11 players have been notified by the commissioner's office, The Boston Globe reported on its Web site Thursday afternoon.

The newspaper, citing two agents who attended Wednesday's union meeting in New York, said the agents confirmed this news Thursday.

Jose Guillen, a free-agent linked to a Florida anti-aging clinic at the center of a federal investigation into illegal steroid sales, is one of the 11 players who allegedly bought steroids, The Globe reported.

Baseball team officials were told last month to be prepared for Mitchell, a former Senate Majority Leader and director of the Boston Red Sox, to issue his report by the end of the year.

Mitchell's staff sent lawyers representing some players with ties to the BALCO investigation letters that notified them of the deadline, CBS News reported Wednesday, citing a lawyer who received the letter.
Barry Bonds
Jose Guillen
Mike Cameron
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