WaPo: Nats Were Unaware About Lo Duca (RR)

Wha?...wha?...That Lo Duca was planning on heisting the Bay Meadows Racetrack and using junked-up Lollyplopteens.com gals as extras?

In some of the first comments by a high-ranking major league team official on the findings of the Mitchell report, Washington Nationals President Stan Kasten said the team had no advance notice that catcher Paul Lo Duca, who signed a one-year, $5 million contract with the Nationals on Dec. 11, would be named in the controversial report two days later. But Kasten did not say whether the team would have gone through with the signing had it been known.

Speaking to a small group of reporters in a conference room at the Nationals’ RFK Stadium headquarters, Kasten said he was “disappointed” that Lo Duca and several former Nationals were included in the report by former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell into performance-enhancing drug use in baseball, and said he would encourage Lo Duca to cooperate with Commissioner Bud Selig if Selig requests further information in exploring potential punishments for players named in the report.