Ryan Braun's initial PED test results were ‘insanely high,’ NL MVP's lawyer insists client did not take PEDs  —  Outfielder's test results were twice the level of highest test ever taken: source  —  Ryan Braun wins the NL MVP in 2011 after batting .332 with 33 home runs and 111 RBI for the Brewers.

I'm positive: MLB will never be clean  —  Here we go again.  —  A bombshell revelation about a major leaguer testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.  The player disputing the result through arbitration.  A spokesperson for the player saying, “There was absolutely no intentional violation of the (drug-testing) program.”

Source says Braun's test not for PED  —  Baseball was rocked Saturday by an ESPN report that reigning National League MVP Ryan Braun has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.  —  A source close to Braun, however, said Sunday that although the player tested positive for a prohibited substance …

Source: Braun didn't take PED  —  By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel  —  A very good source on the Ryan Braun side of the drug testing controversy assures me that Braun did not test positive for a performance-enhancing drug, as reported by ESPN's “Outside the Lines.”

Braun deserves the benefit of the doubt  —  Reigning NL MVP denies using performance-enhancing drugs  —  Ryan Braun deserves the benefit of the doubt.  There, I said it.  That is not a popular position on steroids, is it?  —  We want to hang 'em high and sort out the facts later.

Ryan Braun Tested Positive For Prohibited Substance  —  3:55pm: Yahoo's Jeff Passan reports (in these Twitter links) that baseball's new CBA contains a provision stating that if a player tests positive for a banned substance, the drug will be publicly announced.

What we know and what we don't know about Braun's positive test … The baseball world was shocked by reports of Ryan Braun testing positive under the terms of MLB's anti-doping policy.  Since I began covering the connections between baseball and performance-enhancing drugs in 2004 …

The purse strings get a bit tighter over at Fenway  —  The bottom line is this: You must have a good closer to win the American League East and make it deep into the playoffs.  —  The Red Sox lost Jonathan Papelbon, one of the best closers in baseball, and have yet to replace him.