Report: Guillen, Williams bought performance-enhancing drugs

~ Newspaper reports orders and payments for HGH and steroids.

Power-hitting outfielder Jose Guillen bought nearly $20,000 worth of steroids and human growth hormone from 2003 to 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.

Former major leaguers Matt Williams and Ismael Valdez also purchased performance-enhancing drugs, in 2002, from a Florida anti-aging clinic that was raided in February as part of an investigation by the Albany, N.Y., district attorney into alleged illegal drug sales, the newspaper said.

Major League Baseball began testing for steroids in 2003. HGH was banned in January 2005.

The Chronicle received details of the players' orders in records from a source the newspaper didn't identify. Those records contained shipping and purchase orders, payment information, Social Security numbers and customers' birthdates, the paper said.

Guillen, 31, spent last season with the Seattle Mariners, batting .290 with 23 homers and 99 RBIs. He split the 2003 season between Cincinnati and Oakland, and the Chronicle said business records indicate he had some of the drugs shipped to the Oakland Coliseum that year. He played for the Anaheim Angels in 2004 and Washington Nationals in 2005.

Guillen just completed his 11th season in the majors. Records show he ordered more than $19,000 worth of drugs -- three kinds of human growth hormone, two types of testosterone and the steroids stanozolol and nandrolone -- from the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center between May 2002 and June 2005, the Chronicle said.

Williams was a five-time All-Star during his 17-year major league career with San Francisco, Cleveland and Arizona. He was playing for the Diamondbacks in 2002 when records indicate he purchased $11,600 worth of growth hormone, steroids and other drugs, the Chronicle reported. Williams' final season in the majors was 2003.

The Chronicle reported that Williams, in an interview Monday, said a doctor advised him to try growth hormone to heal a severe ankle injury he sustained during spring training in 2002.

Williams is now a broadcaster for the Diamondbacks.

Valdez pitched for seven teams during a 12-year career that ended in 2005. The newspaper said records show he purchased $11,300 worth of performance-enhancing drugs in 2002.

Records indicate that some prescriptions for the three players were not written by a physician, but by a Florida dentist whose license later was suspended for fraud and incompetence, the newspaper reported.

Cleveland pitcher Paul Byrd, Toronto third baseman Troy Glaus, Baltimore outfielder Jay Gibbons and New York Mets reliever Scott Schoeneweis are other current players who reportedly received performance-enhancing drugs in recent years.