MLB: New York Yankees Mum on A-Rod’s Doping Scandal

The New York Yankees have apparently taken a wait-and-see approach on the latest doping scandal involving their All-Star star slugger Alex Rodriguez.

In a interview with ESPN, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said he communicated with Rodriguez once again via phone call or text messages but insisted that all of their conversations are plainly baseball related.

"I'm going to talk baseball," Girardi told ESPN. "I'm a baseball manager and that is what I'm going to talk about. MLB is handling it and I'm going to let them handle it. I check to see how he is doing. As far as talking about that? No."

Rodriguez, who's rehabbing from arthroscopic surgery in his hip last January, was one of several high-profile baseball players  (Melky Cabrera, Yasmani Grandal, and Gio Gonzales) being investigated for violating the league's strict rule against performance enhancing drugs.

Rodriguez's potential PED use was exposed last year by Biogenesis of America founder Anthony Bosch, who reportedly supplied MLB players with cocktails of performance of drugs from his clinic in Miami.

A-Rod has been repeatedly linked to several doping scandals over the years, but the latest controversy could cause him to miss 100 games or approximately $15 million in salary.

Other than Rodriguez, Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli was also mentioned in the exposé and could face a 50-game suspension.

ESPN's Outside the Lines reported that MLB is seeking to suspend the players involved in the Biogenesis doping scandal at the conclusion of the investigation.

Aside from potentially losing their two key players for the rest of the season, Girardi feared that the scandal could affect the team's morale and their performance. The Yankees (34-25) are currently in second place in the American League East just behind their rivals the Boston Red Sox (36-24) and ahead of the Baltimore Orioles (33-26), the Tampa Bay Rays (33-26) and the Toronto Blue Jays (25-34).

"You know what I worry about? I worry about baseball being affected, as a game, the whole thing, what [baseball has] been through in the last 15 years," Girardi said. "That's my concern. I always worry about my players. Always. Because I think the one thing you never want to forget is they are human beings.