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Former big league slugger Mo Vaughn has
confirmed he used human growth hormone to recover from a nagging
knee injury late in his career.
The 1995 American League MVP told The Athletic in a recent
interview that he had HGH injected in his knee to extend his
career.
“I was trying to do everything I could,” Vaughn told The
Athletic. “I knew I had a bad, degenerative knee. I was shooting
HGH in my knee. Whatever I could do to help the process.”
Vaughn was one of baseball's most feared hitters during his
prime while with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1990s, hitting
39 homers with 126 RBIs during his MVP season. He began having
injury issues later in his career, including his left knee and a
ruptured biceps tendon that cost him the entire 2001 season.
Vaughn was among the players named in 2007 in the Mitchell
Report, which looked into the use of steroids and
performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. The report offered
evidence that Vaughn made three separate purchases of HGH in
2001. Major League Baseball didn't ban HGH until 2005, nearly
two years after Vaughn's last game.
Vaughn played eight seasons with the Red Sox before two-year
stints with both the Anaheim Angels and New York Mets.
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