Braun’s former teammate is still waiting for an apology.
A long line of people, from Carlos Beltran to Aaron Rodgers, have expressed their disappointment with Ryan Braun, the 2011 National League MVP who has been suspended for the rest of the season for violating terms of the Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Former Brewers teammate Zack Greinke’s explanation of the situation might be the most crushing. Greinke, who played with Braun in Milwaukee in 2011 and part of 2012, acknowledged he “100%” believed Braun was clean in 2011, when the slugger was first tied to steroids, and believed Braun was a “good guy.” Braun’s suspension has caused Greinke to re-evaluate.
Via the Los Angeles Times:
“The main thing is, yeah, he lied to us,” Greinke said. “He forced us to lie for him, threw people under the bus in order to help himself out and didn’t care, blamed others for his mistakes, and it’s just a lot of things you don’t expect from people.Greinke said he believed Braun when Braun said he never used performance-enhancing drugs.“Oh, yeah, 100% believed him,” Greinke said. “Everything was so convincing. He had people to blame. He seemed like a really good guy. He was a good teammate at the time. You don’t know the guys that he was pinning it on. I’m not positive, but I think everyone 100% believed him at the time. Especially the next year, he looked just as good as the year before. His numbers his whole career, Hall of Fame numbers. How could you not believe him? He was so convincing.”Asked whether his opinion on Braun as a player changed, Greinke replied, “Not even talking about the player. It’s just the person. Just the fact that he was willing to use anyone that got in his path. The closer you were to him, the more he would use you. It’s just disappointing that a human being could be like that. … The fact that even to this day he hasn’t had a real apology is really upsetting to me. I thought about it a bunch. He still hasn’t really apologized.”
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