Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez suspended for 2014 season

The union said in a statement it “strongly disagrees” with the decision but said “we recognize that a final and binding decision has been reached.

“We respect the collectively-bargained arbitration process which led to the decision,” the union said in a statement.

Rodriguez, however, seems intent on continuing the fight.

“This injustice is MLB’s first step toward abolishing guaranteed contracts in the 2016 bargaining round, instituting lifetime bans for single violations of drug policy, and further insulating its corrupt investigative program from any variety defense by accused players, or any variety of objective review,” he said.

“I have been clear that I did not use performance enhancing substances as alleged in the notice of discipline, or violate the Basic Agreement or the Joint Drug Agreement in any manner, and in order to prove it I will take this fight to federal court. I am confident that when a federal judge reviews the entirety of the record, the hearsay testimony of a criminal whose own records demonstrate that he dealt drugs to minors, and the lack of credible evidence put forth by MLB, that the judge will find that the panel blatantly disregarded the law and facts, and will overturn the suspension.”

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