Mo Vaughn, 12-year MLB veteran, admits using HGH to extend career

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Mo Vaughn, the 12-year MLB slugger, has confirmed utilizing quality maturation hormone to widen his large league career.

Vaughn, who won the 1995 AL MVP, gave an interrogation with The Athletic, wherever helium admitted utilizing a performance-enhancing cause to retrieve from a genu wounded precocious successful his career.

"I was trying to bash everything I could," Vaughn explained. "I knew I had a bad, degenerative knee. I was shooting HGH successful my knee. Whatever I could bash to assistance the process."

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Boston Red Sox archetypal baseman Mo Vaughn successful enactment astatine the sheet astatine Fenway Park during the 1998 season. (RVR Photos-USA Today Sports)

Vaughn was among players named successful the infamous Mitchell Report, which dove into the usage of steroids and performance-enhancing drugs successful shot successful 2007.

In Vaughn’s case, the study recovered grounds that helium had purchased, connected 3 abstracted occasions, HGH successful 2001 – a twelvemonth helium didn’t play aft injuring his near ankle and genu chasing a foul ball.

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MLB didn't prohibition HGH until 2005, 2 years aft Vaughn’s last game. He closed retired his vocation with the New York Mets successful 2003 aft a 27-game stint with the team.

In his prime, Vaughn was 1 of the league’s astir feared powerfulness hitters, with his champion play coming successful 1995, his MVP run with the Boston Red Sox. He mashed 39 homers with a league-leading 126 RBI portion slashing .300/.388/.575 with a .963 OPS.

Boston Red Sox infielder Mo Vaughn successful enactment against the Detroit Tigers astatine Fenway Park. (USA Today Sports)

The adjacent season, Vaughn deed a career-high 44 large flies with 143 RBI, portion hitting .326/.420/.583 with a 1.003 OPS.

After 8 years with the Red Sox, wherever helium deed 230 of his 328 vocation homers, Vaughn spent 2 seasons with the Los Angeles Angels from 1999-2000 earlier that wounded successful 2001 that wiped him retired for the full year.

Vaughn joined the Mets successful 2002, playing 139 games portion hitting 26 homers with 72 RBI with a .259 batting average.