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According to ABC News, New York Yankee 3rd baseman Alex Rodriguez won’t be participating in the 2014 MLB Season after being banned from baseball for the next year by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, who handed down a 162-game ban for involvement in Major League Baseball’s Biogenesis scandal to include all potential playoff games in 2014.

Horowitz’s ruling upholds a good portion of the original 211-game suspension levied by MLB which kept Alex from playing.

Twelve other players were suspended as a result of the investigation, with 65 games being the longest punishment which was doled out to Milwaukee Brewers slugger Ryan Braun. The rest of the players were suspended for only 50 games as this was their first time being caught and the punishment is stipulated under the collective bargaining contracts.

A-Rod released a statement through a spokesman before the official ruling dropped to the public saying,

“The number of games sadly comes as no surprise, as the deck has been stacked against me from day one. This is one man’s decision, that was not put before a fair and impartial jury, does not involve me having failed a single drug test, is at odds with the facts and is inconsistent with the terms of the Joint Drug Agreement and the Basic Agreement, and relies on testimony and documents that would never have been allowed in any court in the United States because they are false and wholly unreliable.

“This injustice is MLB’s first step toward abolishing guaranteed contracts in the 2016 bargaining round, instituting lifetime bans for single violations of drug policy, and further insulating its corrupt investigative program from any variety defense by accused players, or any variety of objective review.

I have been clear that I did not use performance enhancing substances as alleged in the notice of discipline, or violate the Basic Agreement or the Joint Drug Agreement in any manner, and in order to prove it I will take this fight to federal court. I am confident that when a Federal Judge reviews the entirety of the record, the hearsay testimony of a criminal whose own records demonstrate that he dealt drugs to minors, and the lack of credible evidence put forth by MLB, that the judge will find that the panel blatantly disregarded the law and facts, and will overturn the suspension.

No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players’ contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining, and that the MLB investigation and arbitration process cannot be used against others in the future the way it is currently being used to unjustly punish me.

I will continue to work hard to get back on the field and help the Yankees achieve the ultimate goal of winning another championship. I want to sincerely thank my family, all of my friends, and of course the fans and many of my fellow MLB players for the incredible support I received throughout this entire ordeal.”

In a word….Doh!

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A-Rod Banned For 162 Games And Will Not Play At All In 2014  was originally published on theurbandaily.com