KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Three months and a day after being hit with an 80-game steroid suspension, Ervin Santana finally returned to the Twins clubhouse on Saturday afternoon.
His Independence Day agenda included meeting with Twin Cities media for the first time since the stunning news of April 3, three days before the Twins' season opener in Detroit.
"It was tough, like every other bad news that everybody gets," the Dominican right-hander said in the visiting dugout at Kauffman Stadium. "But at the same time, you just have to sit back and just try to get that time to do something productive.