Joe Tacopina, the attorney for New York Yankees' star Alex Rodriguez, will file an injunction in federal court on Monday in an attempt to stop the 2014 season-long suspension from the league from taking effect, Foxnews.com reported. Rodriguez's 211-game suspension, which was handed down by Major League Baseball for his connection to Biogenesis, was shortened to 162 games by a arbitrator Saturday.
Tacopina "confirmed that planned filing to New York Post reporter Ken Davidoff late Sunday. An arbitrator decided Saturday to trim Rodriguez's suspension from 211 games to the entire 2014 season including any Yankees playoff games. That means that the new suspension will last 162 games at minimum and 181 games at maximum," Foxnews.com also reported.
The filing comes a day after Anthony Bosch, who led the Miami-based Biogenesis clinic, which supplied performance-enhancing drugs to Rodriguez and a dozen other major leaguers told '60 Minutes' "that he received $12,000 per month in cash to keep the Yankee star on performance-enhancing drugs," Foxnews.com reported.
"Now, all of a sudden, his levels of testosterone are higher. It gives him... more energy. It gives him more strength. It gives him more strength. It gives him more focus. And in combination with the growth hormone, that combination would make playng the game of baseball a lot easier," Bosch told '60 Minutes' on Sunday.
"At times, he would ask me to inject," Bosch added.
Bosch's interview drew an angry response from the Major League Baseball Players Association:
"It is unfortunate that Major League Baseball apparently lacks faith in the integrity and finality of the arbitrator's decision and our Joint Drug Agreement, such that it could not resist the temptation to publicly pile-on against Alex Rodriguez. It is equally troubling that the MLB-appointed Panel Arbitrator will himself be appearing in the '60 Minutes' segment, and that Tony Bosch, MLB's principal witness, is appearing on the program with MLB's blessing," read its statement.
Rodriguez, a one-time shoo-in for the Baseball Hall of Fame, has 654 home runs over what had been a storied career.
The 2014 suspension would also include potential playoff games.
