On Tuesday, the house of Jason Grimsley, a reliever for the Arizona Diamondbacks, was raided by thirteen federal agents. The federal agents searched through Grimsley’s house for approximately six hours, but details of the search appear to be under wraps. The raid is in connection with the on-going BALCO steroids case. Apparently Jason Grimsley was participating in the case, but withdrew his participating in April.

It looks like they were looking for connections to any and all persons associated with baseball on any level, including minor league players, trainers, coaches and so forth. They believed, because of his statements, that he had these connections. While Grimsley spoke the names of suspected players in court, those names were blackened out of court records.

In 2003, Grimsley failed a league drug test and, according to authorities, he has admitted to using human growth hormone, amphetamines and steroids. Many of us suspect the issue of steroids and performance enhancers is a wide spread plague on the game of baseball. Just how deep it goes is unknown, but perhaps the following point gives us a clue. According to IRS Agent, Jeff Novitsky, amphetamine use was common in the MLB. So much that it was placed in the coffee before games and coffee was labeled as “leaded” or “unleaded”.