These guys are the real deal.’ My job was to make sure that the DEA train was on the DEA track and the MLB train was on the other track. We were thinking, ‘This is not some rent-a-cop type thing. “They’re talking about the dates the players did this and that, supposed meetings. You could tell that they had spent, at the very least, months and months, and they knew it like the back of their hand,” he said. They were pulling up reports, and started telling us about baseball players, who they were getting their dope from - whether it was Bosch - and how they got it. “We went into the meeting with Eddie and Tom - I had never seen anybody work iPads. Kevin Stanfill, the DEA assistant special agent in charge of the Biogenesis federal case, recalled how adept Reilly and I had been in our presentation of the evidence. But they were fabulous from the beginning to the end.” It was a huge learning curve for everyone. It was a little daunting at first because there were a couple females on the investigative team-we’re baseball fans-but we were not privy to a lot of the lingo, and everything that came along with it. But despite the sports information gap, we clicked with our DEA counterparts right away, and their interest in launching a case seemed apparent from the outset.
Pinstriped bible professional#
We got a few blank stares when we started to mention the possible connection between professional baseball players and Bosch. Tom Reilly and I went to the DEA’s Weston, Florida, offices about thirty-five miles northwest of Miami in the summer of 2012 to lay out what we had uncovered on Anthony Bosch, his father, Pedro, and the anti-aging clinic on South Dixie Highway in Coral Gables. The DEA agents we first met in the Biogenesis investigation weren’t exactly your type A sports fans. Reprinted with permission of Hachette Book Group, New York, NY. Copyright (c) by Eddie Dominguez, Teri Thompson and Christian Red by Hachette Books. Excerpted from the book Baseball Cop by Eddie Domingues. Dominguez describes the DOI's initial meeting with DEA agents, which included Jeannette Moran, Kevin Stanfill and Mark Trouville, and the remarkable events that followed. Dominguez reveals previously unreported details about the undercover informant at the center of the investigation that landed Alex Rodriguez a season-long suspension from the game, as well as MLB's attempts to end the DOI's cooperation with the feds. In an adapted excerpt from Eddie Dominguez's new book - "Baseball Cop: The Dark Side of America's National Pastime (Hachette Books)," written with Teri Thompson and Christian Red - readers get an inside look at the Biogenesis doping scandal, and the joint investigations into Anthony Bosch and his South Florida anti-aging clinic by federal authorities and MLB.