Union chief Don Fehr, on his annual tour of every camp, spoke with the Mets this morning. Fehr chatted with reporters afterward and had this to say about the state of the game.
"It’s pretty clear that all of the available evidence we have indicates that the incidents of anabolic steroid use has been drastically reduced," Fehr said. "You never eliminate it completely. Nobody ever has. It’s drastically reduced and Senator Mitchell confirmed that in the report. He said the program in fact detects what you can detect. When you come to things that are outside of that you have to rely on other kinds of evidence. I think it’s pretty clean.
"I’m satisfied that the program we have both works and the penalties are severe enough and you can penalize for a violation even if that violation is not demonstrated by a positive test in a fashion we think should make the program effective even in those circumstances. Nobody is running around saying for certain I know 'X' is going on and you’re not doing anything about it. We just don’t have that."