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Baseball Steroids Report Lists 15 Former and Current Padres

By Ana Tintocalis / Education Reporter,  KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published December 13, 2007 at 12:47 PM PST
This story was published more than 16 years ago.

Fifteen current and former baseball players with ties to San Diego County are listed in a report detailing the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. KPBS Reporter Ana

Baseball Steroids Report Lists 15 Former and Current Padres

Fifteen current and former baseball players with ties to San Diego County are listed in a report detailing the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more. 

San Diego Padres hitting coach Wally Joyner is one of the big local names listed in the Mitchell report. Other former Padres mentioned include Ken Caminiti who died three years ago at the age of 41. UC San Diego sports medicine researcher Suraj Achar says Caminiti is a perfect example of an athletes who went to great lengths to cheat.

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Achar: Our star third baseman in San Diego who took us through the world series -- these drugs led to changes to his heart that led him to have sudden death. And this is not uncommon. We have athletes dying at an early age very frequently.

Other ex-padres listed are pitcher Ismael Valdez and catcher Gary Sheffield. Former all-star outfielder David Justice is identified. He didn't play for the Padres but owns a home in Poway.

Ana Tintocalis, KPBS News.

Ana Tintocalis
Ana Tintocalis was a member of the KPBS radio news team from 2001 to 2011. She first served as a as a producer for "These Days" (now "Midday Edition") and then later as the station's education reporter. After graduating from California State University, Long Beach with a journalism degree, Ana began working as a field reporter and anchor at KLON Radio 88.1 FM in Long Beach, covering breaking news in Orange and Los Angeles counties. During that time she also freelanced for other print and broadcast news organizations, such as Metro Networks, the Associated Press, and Santa Clarita Our Times. In 2001, Ana traveled for more than three months in Cuba where she produced a radio series focusing on the street music in Havana. Upon returning from her journey, Ana freelanced as a reporter covering court cases for the Antelope Valley Press, a newspaper based in Palmdale, California.
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