Dodgers' Manny Ramirez Prepares For Secret Sex Change

Breaking News From Mannywood Adjacent

LOS ANGELES.

A source close to the Los Angeles Dodgers has told HOLLYWOOD-ADJACENT that suspended left-fielder Manny Ramirez purchased – and intended to use – the women’s fertility drug HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin) to reverse the effects of off-season, “stage 1” GENDER REASSIGNMENT THERAPY.

Ramirez was penalized 50 games without pay by Major League Baseball for violation of its banned substance policy. According to information uncovered by HOLLYWOOD-ADJACENT, it was during the emotionally turbulent days between the end of the 2008 baseball season and the day he finally signed a two-year, $45 million deal with the club that Ramirez became serious about the idea of Gender Reassignment, in what was believed to be the player’s way of dealing with many of the unresolved emotional issues from his previous perceived rejections at the hands of his former employers the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox.

This radical move, in the mind of Ramirez, would have cemented his place in the annals of baseball history by making him the first woman ever to play professional baseball on the Major League level.

Fearing that the left-fielder's switch from male to female might endanger his client's long-term earning potential, Scott Boras, who represented Manny in his negotiations with the Dodgers, quickly agreed to terms with the team, even taking a loss in the process. Boras had originally anticipated his client’s contract worth to be in the neighborhood of $100-150 million over the next 4-6 years. This, however, was not to be.

The same source in the Ramirez camp told HOLLYWOOD-ADJACENT that it was because Manny had experienced,

“Such a roller coaster of emotions that he considered such dramatic changes in
every aspect of his life.”

But it was not until May 7 – the day his drug suspension was announced – that Manny issued this thinly-veiled statement regarding his mysterious off-season happenings, through the players’ union, where he said,

“Recently, I saw a physician for a personal health issue.He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was OK to give me.”

While Anti-doping experts said the absence of HCG, coupled with the league's action, indicated that the Dodgers outfielder used steroids, could it not, just as easily, indicate a change of heart?The assumption within Major League Baseball was that the 37-year-old Ramirez had used HCG as a means to mask his recent steroid use. HOLLYWOOD-ADJACENT has learned that such an assumption could not be further from the truth.

Within the last 24 hours, HOLLYWOOD-ADJACENT has learned from a lone source inside MLB that Ramirez told them that, following his winter of emotional longing brought about by an uncertain future in baseball, he even toyed with the idea of - following completion of his Reassignment - the possibility of pursuing motherhood.

All the sources asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the test results.

When news of the suspension reached Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, a cover story was devised by Boras, whereby Ramirez would either “confess” the use of HCG for a lingering bout of erectile dysfunction, or reluctantly accept the possibility of a league-imposed, two month vacation without pay.

Ultimately Ramirez, and Boras, chose the latter.The truth be told, it was ultimately the stigma attached to a legacy of Manny no longer being Manny that reluctantly made the player’s mind up for him.

NOTE: Attempts by HOLLYWOOD-ADJACENT to have Ramirez – or agent Boras – comment on this story, have so far, been unsuccessful.