Have you ever wondered how this whole mess on steroid use and baseball started? In a recent interview, FBI informant Andrew Michael Bogdan, the man who led the federal agents to Kirk Radomski, told the entire story.
From Baltimore Sun:
In an exclusive interview with The Baltimore Sun yesterday, Andrew Michael “Mike” Bogdan admitted to helping the FBI in a real-estate fraud case as part of a plea agreement. But he said he did not use his close friendship with former Orioles outfielder Larry Bigbie to assist the FBI in nabbing one of baseball’s primary steroid distributors.
“It sounds like Mike Bogdan single-handedly was bringing down Major League Baseball,” said Bogdan, while sitting in his rowhome in the Eastwood area of Dundalk. “I just had the pleasure of being friends with Larry Bigbie.”
So who is Larry Bigbie? Bigbie used to be a player for the St. Louis Cardinals. He came in with Aaron Miles in exchange for Ray King. Bigbie had a lot of talent although he always seemed to run out of luck in his games. Back when he was still a part of the Baltimore Orioles, Bigbie met and befriended Bogdan. Bogdan was just someone who hung out in the locker room and was a nice guy to be with. During that time, however, Bogdan was already an FBI informant. Eventually, Bogdan started hearing about steroids from the athletes. Bigbie was one of those who admitted to using performance enhancing drugs to his so-called friend. And of course, Bogdan effectively ratted him out and even went as far as taking a used syringe from Bigbie’s trash to serve as evidence to the FBI. Catching Bigbie led to finding Radomski, the dealer who had provided the athlete with his supplies of anabolic steroids and HGH. What happened after that is history.
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