Jason Kendall sat for a deposition in his divorce case recently, and the subject of other players taking the ADD drug Adderall came up. Kendall admitted to his own use -- as much as 60 mg doses during the regular season, cutting back once the season was over -- said that he believes Brian Giles used Adderall as well, and that he believed Bobby Crosby did too.
For what it’s worth, 60 mg is a heavy, heavy dosage of Addreall, nearly twice what you typically see for adults. Many, many players use Adderall -- at rates much higher than the drug is prescribed to the population at large -- getting “therapeutic use” exemptions from Major League Baseball in order to take what would otherwise be a banned stimulant. Many anti-doping experts believe that the relatively large number of Adderall users in baseball is fishy.
But Kendall’s use and his shaky info on the use of others is not the most interesting part of his deposition. This is:
It’s been four months since I’ve taken anyone’s deposition so I may be getting rusty, but I don’t seem to recall the “Mark McGuire didn’t do it so my client doesn’t have to do it” instruction. This testimony also indicates that Kendall either didn’t fill out the errata sheet when he got a chance to review the transcript or else he doesn’t know how to spell “McGwire.”
