Royals players cited by Mitchell [Mark Teahen opens his mouth]

Moving forward also struck a responsive chord with outfielder Mark Teahen, the Royals’ assistant player representative.

“I agree with just letting the past be the past. There’s no point in going back and doing a witch hunt on who did it and who didn’t,” Teahen said. “I’m sure they’ll find a lot of names to throw out there, but there’ll be a lot of names not mentioned or touched on.”

Although former Sen. George Mitchell alluded to toughening policies, Teahen disagreed.

“In the past two years, there have only been two positive tests per year, so it’s doing its job. It’s cleaned steroids out of baseball. A lot of his ideas on what he said we should add to the drug-testing policy, I felt like we already had ... I think the current policy is working and the past is the past,” Teahen said.

“A 50-game suspension for a first time testing positive is intense. That’s one-third of the season, and for a lot of guys, one-third of a season can’t be lost or otherwise their career is done.”

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For Teahen, there was a sense of relief that, aside from Guillen—whose case had surfaced earlier—no current Royals player was mentioned in the report.

“That one was already out there, so it’s nice to know that no one else has to deal with it,” Teahen said. “Hopefully, we can just deal with it and move on and put it in the past.”

Is Teahen as naive as I think he is?