Why is Dr. Anthony Galea who treated Jose Reyes under investigation?
After Mets shortstop Jose Reyes injured his right leg last May, his season deteriorated into a series of physical setbacks. As the frustrations mounted about the injury — first diagnosed as calf tendinitis and then as a torn hamstring tendon — Reyes’s agent, Peter Greenberg, approached the Mets with a proposal. Greenberg urged the Mets to agree to send Reyes to Toronto to receive platelet-rich plasma therapy — a procedure that does not violate baseball’s performance-enhancing drug policies — from Dr. Anthony Galea, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter. Greenberg, who was acting at Reyes’s behest, was not the only agent who asked teams to send their players to be treated by Galea. Several people within baseball said the agents Randy and Alan Hendricks insisted to the skeptical Oakland Athletics in 2007 that one of their clients, reliever Huston Street, visit Galea because of an elbow injury. That same season, John Patterson, a pitcher for the Washington Nation
Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, top, was given platelet-rich plasma therapy in Toronto by Dr. Anthony Galea. The team was initially against the trip. After Mets shortstop Jose Reyes injured his right leg last May, his season deteriorated into a series of physical setbacks. As the frustrations mounted about the injury — first diagnosed as calf tendinitis and then as a torn hamstring tendon — Reyes’s agent, Peter Greenberg, approached the Mets with a proposal. Greenberg urged the Mets to agree to send Reyes to Toronto to receive platelet-rich plasma therapy — a procedure that does not violate baseball’s performance-enhancing drug policies — from Dr. Anthony Galea, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter. Greenberg, who was acting at Reyes’s behest, was not the only agent who asked teams to send their players to be treated by Galea. Several people within baseball said the agents Randy and Alan Hendricks insisted to the skeptical Oakland Athletics in 2007 that one of the
After Mets shortstop Jose Reyes injured his right leg last May, his season deteriorated into a series of physical setbacks. As the frustrations mounted about the injury — first diagnosed as calf tendinitis and then as a torn hamstring tendon — Reyes’s agent, Peter Greenberg, approached the Mets with a proposal. Greenberg urged the Mets to agree to send Reyes to Toronto to receive platelet-rich plasma therapy — a procedure that does not violate baseball’s performance-enhancing drug policies — from Dr. Anthony Galea, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter. But numerous major league teams are apprehensive about Galea because they know so little about him. After an article in Tuesday’s editions of The New York Times described Galea’s use of H.G.H., plasma therapy and Actovegin, a drug extracted from calf’s blood, a number of major league teams called the commissioner’s office to express their concern, said the people familiar with the matter.
