John Mozeliak, General Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, said that he was planning to meet with Troy Glaus to discuss Glaus’ admission of using steroids in 2003 and 2004 to federal authorities. In the recently disclosed investigation, Glaus admitted to having used steroids as a means for recovering from an injury on his right shoulder—an injury he has been struggling with for most of his baseball career. Mozeliak said that he was concerned about Glaus, especially since he was recovering from yet another injury to the right shoulder, having had a recent surgery early in the year. Mozeliak said that this injury is likely to sideline Glaus for the first two months of the MLB season.

Apparently, Glaus told the investigators that he obtained steroids from a California doctor named Ramon Scruggs, and that he used the steroids to recover from the shoulder injuries. He also admitted to receiving the steroids in the mail without first meeting the doctor in person. They only talked over the phone. Mozeliak said to the St. Louis Post Dispatch that any time something such as Glaus’ admission resurfaces in the context of his currently going through rehabilitation and recovery, it is concerning to him. He also said that they are hopeful that this was something that can be worked through and that at the end it would be unrelated.

Troy Glaus testified before a federal grand jury that was investigating Ramon Scruggs’s anomalous practice of prescribing steroids over the phone, together with MLB player Todd Greene. According to sources who knew of the testimony, Glaus and Greene said that they were referred to Scruggs by their agents, Mike Nicotera and Gene Casaleggio. The investigation of Ramon Scruggs was led by prosecutors from the Northern District of California, US attorney’s office, the same prosecutors who have led most of the high-profile cases that involved distribution of performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes in the past six years, including the Balco case.

In an interview with the New York Times, Scruggs said that he was generally an anti-aging doctor, or more of a corrective and preventive medicine. He also said that he really believed anabolic steroids as well as natural hormone replacement therapy were the best ways to get the health back at a certain age. Scruggs said that his lawyer is currently working out a plea agreement with the federal prosecutors.

It was Brian Bartow, spokesman for the St. Louis Cardinals, who said that Mozeliak was planning to meet with Glaus when the Cardinals are in Phoenix to play against the Diamondbacks. Glaus is said to be currently rehabilitating in Arizona so it was the perfect opportunity to meet with him. His rehabilitation is being overseen by a Phoenix-based physical therapist named Keith Kouher, who was the same therapist that supervised Glaus’ recovery from a shoulder surgery back in 2004. The surgery was done to repair his labrum and rotator cuff. Glaus’ had another shoulder surgery in January this year to repair a muscle in his right shoulder.

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