Alex Rodriguez’ public confession on his steroid use probably influenced other baseball players to come out and talk about their career pumped up with steroids. The latest major league player to share his life on steroids is the former Baltimore Orioles outfielder Larri Bigbie.

Bigbie is a first round draft pick of the Orioles during the time where steroids are still rampant in the league. Bigbie shared many details of his steroid life during a phone interview by John MacKinnon of Edmonton Journal. “That was the era I came up in. Like coming up in the ’60s, you had your people that follow the Grateful Dead and did the drugs that they did,” Bigbie said. He also added that playing with the AL East and competing with the teams like the Yankees and the Red Sox puts more pressure on him as a player.

Bigbie choose to be one of those who were using performance enhancers to make his career survive in the major league. He was introduced to steroids by former team mate David Segui. He was brought together with another teammate Brian Roberts to baseball’s steroid distributor Kirk Radomski.

After that meeting, Bigbie started his steroid cocktails that make him a 220 pound of lean muscles. Segui thought him how to use steroids and even helped him inject the drugs. Bigbie said that he started with a legal substance creatine. He later used other types of steroids like deca-durabolin, testosterone, Sustanon and human growth hormone. To make it more effective, Bigbie followed steroid cycles for the various anabolic steroids he was taking that time.

Bigbie told the Edmonton Journal that he never touched steroid during his career at the minors or during college. “You work your whole life to get to (the majors) and once you do, you realize there’s a few things missing if you want to stay there,” he said. “You know what’s going on around you and even underneath you, trying to get that job. I wish I could have come up in a game that didn’t (force him into) the decisions I had to make. It would have been a lot easier on myself and my family,” Bigbie added. The former Orioles admitted that it was one of the wrong decisions he made.

Larri Bigbie also commented on how he was implicated by his steroid supplier Kirk Radomski. “I wasn’t making the right decisions, but I didn’t think I was going to be set up by someone who I thought was a friend. It was a little bit upsetting because I felt a little bit betrayed,” he said.

Right now Bigbie is playing for the Golden Baseball League. He was not expecting that he will be offered again a job in the majors. “But seriously, if a Triple A job came my way, I couldn’t say for sure I’d take it. I’m just content playing here and trying to help this team win. Content to kind of just enjoy the game,” he added.

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