page_title: 2009 in baseball
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 in baseball / Events / February
caption_attribution_description: English: Alex Rodriguez
context_page_description: The following are the baseball events of the year 2009 throughout the world.
context_section_description: February 3
  Joe Torre and Tom Verducci's book, The Yankee Years hits book stores. The book chronicles Torre's years as manager of the New York Yankees from 1996 to 2007. In the book, Joe Torre says he feels that general manager Brian Cashman "betrayed" him in negotiations with the Yankees following the 2007 season, and that teammates refer to Alex Rodriguez as "A-Fraud."
  A urine sample that Barry Bonds submitted as part of Major League Baseball's anonymous testing program in 2003 that did not show the presence of performance-enhancing drugs under that program is retested by federal authorities after it is seized in a 2004 raid, and comes back positive for anabolic steroids, according to a The New York Times report.
  Óliver Pérez re-signs with the New York Mets with a three-year $36 million deal.
  February 4
  The list of victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme is revealed, and includes Sandy Koufax and Sterling Equities Associates, the New York Mets' ownership group.
  San Diego Padres slugger Adrián González sets a Caribbean Series record with three home runs in a game and Mexico's Venados de Mazatlán beats the Dominican Republic's Tigres del Licey, 12–9. González has a two-run homer in the fourth inning and a solo shot in the sixth and ninth innings. Forty-seven players had hit two home runs in a Series game over its previous fifty editions.
  February 7 – Sports Illustrated reports that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003.
  February 8 – Andruw Jones signs a one-year minor league contract offer from the Texas Rangers. Jones' deal pays him $500,000 if he makes the major league team. He also has the chance to make $1 million in incentives throughout the season.
  February 9 – Alex Rodriguez admits in an interview to ESPN's Peter Gammons that while with the Texas Rangers during the 2001–2003 seasons he used performance-enhancing drugs.
  February 17 – Alex Rodriguez meets the press at George M. Steinbrenner Field to discuss his admission of having used performance-enhancing drugs to ESPN's Peter Gammons. Rodriguez claims that a cousin repeatedly injected him with drugs obtained over the counter in the Dominican Republic called "Boli", a likely reference to Primobolan.
  February 18
  Ken Griffey, Jr. returns to the Seattle Mariners, agreeing to a one-year deal that includes a $2 million base salary and up to $2.5 million in incentives based on at-bats and attendance.
  The demolition of Shea Stadium is completed.
caption: A-Rod had a busy month of February
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