The report released Thursday by George J. Mitchell acknowledged that it depicted only a sliver of the steroid use in baseball, but the career arcs of two players vividly illustrated how the use of steroids spread through the major leagues.
Todd Hundley and David Segui were teammates on the Mets in the mid-1990s. They received steroids from Kirk Radomski, a former clubhouse attendant who was a major source of the drugs, according to Mitchell.
As Mitchell reported, it was Segui, in a rolling-stone existence as a journeyman on seven teams, who introduced seven players, as well as a trainer, to Radomski. That trainer then reportedly supplied performance-enhancing drugs to three more players, including Roger Clemens.
Hundley went West in a 1999 trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers and took Radomski’s telephone number with him, Radomski told Mitchell. Hundley gave the number to catcher Paul Lo Duca, who then put Radomski in touch with four more players, including pitchers Eric Gagné, who once converted a record 84 consecutive saves, and Kevin Brown, a six-time All-Star, the report said.
By the 2000 season, the Dodgers’ roster had 11 players who would end up in Mitchell’s report, more than any other team in one year. It is not clear that those 11 players were all using performance-enhancing drugs in 2000, but eight were eventually linked to Radomski.
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