MLB owners expected to agree on new drug policy

After a toughened drug agreement was passed unanimously by baseball’s executive council, Bud Selig expects an easy path to ratification when owners meet Thursday.

“We have no controversy. None. Zero,” the baseball commissioner said Wednesday as the two-day session began.

Players and owners have until May 23 to ratify the drug agreement their negotiators signed off on last month. The deal increases the frequency of tests and the authority of the program’s independent administrator.

“When you think of where we were, and where we are today, it is remarkable,” Selig said.

Selig, however, didn’t want to discuss this week’s new indictment of home-run king Barry Bonds, charged Wednesday in federal court with 14 counts of making a false declaration to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice. Bonds has denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. Read More