In a new twist to the ongoing suspension case of American baseball star Alex Rodriguez, a man who had worked for Rodriguez has reportedly claimed that he was pressurised by Major League Baseball (MLB) investigators into saying that he saw Rodriguez and other players use performance enhancing drugs (PED).
The New York Yankees star is facing an ongoing arbitration hearing into his record-setting 211-game suspension for allegedly violating MLB's drug policy.
According to CNN, the man said that he was not paid by baseball or Rodriguez, a three-time Most Valuable Player, and claimed that the MLB investigators threatened him with his job if he did not gave his evidence like they forced him to.
However, MLB chief operating officer Rob Manfred has strongly denied any improper conduct on behalf of his legal team, saying that the investigators have complied with all legal and ethical requirements throughout the process, including the legal purchase of evidence for 125,000 dollars.
But the worker further claimed that the MLB representatives had 'offered him a job and up to 125,000 dollars for the client files'.
The files in question come from the now-shuttered Biogenesis anti-aging clinic in South Florida, which MLB says supplied steroids to at least a dozen baseball players, with the report adding that they were reported stolen from the car of a former Biogenesis worker.
