Former MLB slugger Mo Vaughn, winner of the 1995 American League MVP award while a member of the Red Sox, recently confirmed details originally reported in the 2007 Mitchell Report regarding his usage of human growth hormone in an effort to return from injury later in his career.
Vaughn, 57, discussed the matter in a story with Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic as part of a wider piece about rediscovering his love of the game in recent years.
“I was trying to do everything I could,” Vaughn told Rosenthal. “I knew I had a bad, degenerative knee.