Mlb Clears Dodgers' Dr. Neal Elattrache After Link To Conor Mcgregor Steroids Report

Major League Baseball says it has nary concerns astir Dodgers and Rams caput squad expert Dr. Neal ElAttrache moving pinch players.

ElAttrache was questioned by MLB connected June 12 pursuing a elaborate study by nan New York Times that nan renowned surgeon and sports medicine master supported nan therapeutic usage of performance-enhancing narcotics by UFC prima Conor McGregor.

“MLB took our work to behaviour owed diligence successful this matter seriously. We interviewed Dr. Neal ElAttrache past week, covering aggregate topics, and he answered our questions thoroughly,” MLB said successful a connection obtained by The Times Tuesday night.

“Based connected our interview, nan reappraisal of applicable records, Dr. ElAttrache’s agelong history of support for and practice pinch nan Joint Drug Program and nan truth that nary Therapeutic Use Exemption requests of this quality person been submitted by Dr. ElAttrache aliases anyone else, we do not person immoderate concerns regarding Dr. ElAttrache’s curen of MLB players, aliases his adherence to nan Joint Drug Programs and related rules.

“We see this matter closed.”

ElAttrache performed room connected McGregor successful July 2021, inserting a rod, plates and screws into his near limb aft nan combatant collapsed his tibia and fibula during a mixed martial arts bout against Dustin Poirier successful Las Vegas.

McGregor’s betterment was lengthy and arduous. ElAttrache told nan New York Times that while he did not prescribe steroids for McGregor, he referred him to a master who did. Furthermore, ElAttrache wrote a missive supporting McGregor’s petition for a therapeutic usage exemption from UFC supplier policies.

“I felt it would beryllium due to consult different physicians pinch expertise successful bony healing/bone metabolism,” ElAttrache told nan New York Times via text. “I recommended nan consultations but not nan people of treatment.”

ElAttrache said he told McGregor to cheque pinch UFC supplier testers astir prescriptions nan advisor gave him. “I purposely wasn’t progressive pinch his information by nan advisor nor pinch prescribing medication,” ElAttrache said.

The exemption petition was denied by nan U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, nan supplier testing statement nan UFC utilized astatine nan time, triggering a divided betwixt nan 2 organizations. McGregor withdrew from nan UFC anti-doping programme soon thereafter and nary longer was required to acquisition testing for banned substances.

The study prompted MLB to talk pinch ElAttrache astir his attack to treating players.

ElAttrache, operating chiefly retired of nan Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic successful Los Angeles, has performed elbow aliases enarthrosis surgeries connected salient Dodgers past and present, including Shohei Ohtani, Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin and Walker Buehler arsenic good arsenic erstwhile Rams stars Cooper Kupp and Cam Akers.

Among nan hundreds of surgeries performed complete 3 decades by ElAttrache, his patients include nan 4 2024 MLB astir valuable subordinate and Cy Young Award winners — Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal. ElAttrache’s patients see 18 of 29 players who won nan MVP aliases Cy Young awards complete nan past 10 years.

“I person spoken pinch MLB and I americium very comfortable pinch nan process that nan convention and I will complete to guarantee nan nationalist that I person followed each norm and regularisation successful my aesculapian curen of athletes without exception,” ElAttrache said successful a connection to nan Los Angeles Times earlier this month. “My grounds is wholly clean, including successful this case.”

Times unit writers Steve Henson, Bill Shaikin, Sam Farmer and Gary Klein contributed to this report.