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16 current or former Yankee players, 1 former Yankee coach named in Mitchell Report

Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte headed a list of 16 current and former Yankee players who were named as potential users of performance-enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report.

In addition, Brian McNamee, the team's assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2000 and 2001, cooperated with Mitchell and gave great details into Clemens' alleged steroids use. According to the report, McNamee -- who had been the Yankees' bullpen catcher and batting-practice pitcher from 1993 to '95 -- was the strength and conditioning coach in Toronto in 1998-99. It was there that he met Clemens, who played for the Blue Jays in 1997 and '98, and Mitchell states Clemens was instrumental in McNamee's hiring by the Yankees. McNamee was dismissed by the Yankees after the 2001 season.

Clemens and Pettitte became friends when Clemens joined the Yankees in 1999.

McNamee told Mitchell that he lied to a reporter when he denied giving steroids to Clemens and Pettitte in a 2006 interview.

Other players with ties to the Yankees named in the report, with the years they were with the team listed:

Kevin Brown, pitcher, 2004-05
Jose Canseco, designated hitter, 2000
Jason Grimsley, pitcher, 1999-2000
Glenallen Hill, outfielder, 2000
David Justice, outfielder, 2000-01
Chuck Knoblauch, second baseman/outfielder, 1998-2001
Josias Manzanillo, pitcher, 1995
Denny Neagle, pitcher, 2000
Daniel Naulty, outfielder, 1999
Hal Morris, first baseman/outfielder, 1988-89
Mike Stanton, pitcher, 1997-2002, 2005
Rondell White, outfielder, 2002
Ron Villone, 2006-07
Todd Williams, 2001

Posted by Art Martone  at 2:43 PM | Permalink