Ortiz Says Supplements May Have Landed Him on List

by FanHouse NewswireFiled under: Red Sox, MLB PEDsNEW YORK (AP) -- David Ortiz thinks legal supplements and vitamins likely caused him to land on a list of alleged drug users circulated by the federal government, and Major League Baseball and the players' association said some of the names on it never tested positive for steroids.MLB said in a statement Saturday that at most 96 urine samples tested positive in the 2003 survey‚ and the players' association said 13 of those were in dispute.The government seized the samples and records the following year from baseball's drug-testing companies as part of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative investigation into Barry Bonds and others. The list of 104 players said to have tested positive, attached to a grand jury subpoena, is part of a five-year legal fight, with the union trying to force the government to return what federal agents took during raids. More: Union Argues It's Possible Ortiz Did Not Test Positive in 200...