The Mets
immediately released a statement on Tuesday concerning Cesar Puello. "Because
of the ongoing investigation, we have no comment. We refer all questions to
Major League Baseball," the team said. Puello is currently listed as the
Mets’ #14 prospect by Jonathan Mayo, mlb.com’s draft and prospect expert. In
his description of Puello, Mayo says “From a pure raw tools standpoint, no one
stands ahead of Puello in the Mets’ organization. He just hasn’t been able to
translate those tools into consistent performance just yet.” Puello was injured
in 2012 and played in only 66 minor league games, although he came back and was
able to play in the Arizona Fall League. It is unknown whether Puello’s injury
has any connection to his purported involvement with Biogenesis
Three of
the five new named players, Puello, De Los Santos and Martinez, are clients of
ACES, the sports agency owned by brothers Seth and Sam Levinson. The other two,
Cabrera and Norberto, are former ACES clients. Five additional players
identified as Biogenesis clients also have ties to ACES, and most have been
connected by sources or documents as having worked with Juan Carlos Nunez, who
worked for ACES as a liaison to players. ACES is the same agency that
represents Melky Cabrera, (no relation to Everth) who was suspended for 50
games last year due to the use of PEDs. Seth and Sam Levinson have said they
had no knowledge of Nunez's extensive work with Biogenesis, and said he was
temporarily employed by them as a contractor. An investigation last year
cleared the Levinsons of any involvement in the PED scandal related to Cabrera.
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