There are also questions about Rodriguez's involvement with an anti-aging clinic in Miami that has been accused of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs to players.
Rodriguez, accused of involvement with Biogenesis, a now-defunct South Florida anti-aging clinic suspected of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs, was expected to receive a lengthy suspension Monday.
But the Yankees are also aware that Rodriguez faces the possibility of a substantial suspension by Major League Baseball for his association with a South Florida anti-aging clinic that is suspected of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs to baseball players.
Rodriguez, who met Friday with Major League Baseball investigators to discuss accusations that he was involved with a clinic dispensing performance-enhancing drugs, again declined to discuss the topic, saying only that "with due time, we'll talk about that".
Since February, he has been at the center of an investigation into a Miami clinic that has been accused of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs to several professional baseball players.
He is owed $28 million this season alone, and the accusations surrounding his reported involvement with a South Florida clinic that has been accused of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs have made him into a toxic figure again.
Already facing a possible suspension for being connected to an anti-aging clinic that has been accused of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs to baseball players, Rodriguez on Tuesday went rogue.
Rodriguez, who played in a minor league rehabilitation game Friday, is facing a severe penalty from Major League Baseball for his suspected involvement with a clinic accused of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs.
He is owed $28 million this season alone, and the accusations surrounding his reported involvement with a South Florida clinic that has been accused of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs have made him a toxic figure again.
The visit by International Association of Athletics Federations testers, which followed pressure from the World Anti-Doping Agency in the wake of claims made by a German TV documentary last year that Kenyan doctors were dispensing performance enhancing drugs, were just the latest reminder that doping suspicions are rarely far away in track and field.
Whether the 37-year-old Rodriguez can play at all after his second hip surgery in four years is also unclear, as is his status as the season progresses and investigators for Major League Baseball continue to examine his ties to an anti-aging clinic in South Florida that is suspected of dispensing performance-enhancing drugs.
