And when did you have the
test that was positive?
Let me clarify on the ringworm story.
I've been dealing with skin infection
on the last of the course of the years.
During that period of time that I got tested,
I got this medication that it
was not from my medical staff.
Back over here and. On the Padres?
And then soon later I tested positive and.
And then it was more like it,
but at the end of the day.
There's no excuses there's
there's no excuses and I
need to do a way better job.
On what is knowing?
Was going inside my body and.
This there's no excuse on this actions.
When did you test positive?
Is that spring training or
during the season or what month?
Late July. What do you want to say
to the fans, some of who are still
here wearing your jersey and others
who maybe have kids that aren't sure
they can look up to you anymore?
What do you want to say to
those guys out there?
Understand, I understand how they feel.
I was a fan. I grew up watching this game.
I have my favorite player would
have done something like I've done.
I want to feel the same way.
I want to feel, you know, disappointed.
I'm gonna feel that down and I
truly understand how they feel.
But one thing is that I'm
gonna make for sure it's like.
When I come back,
I gained their trust again and I regained
their that pure love that they gave
me all the way from the beginning.
Fernando, when did you start
taking this substance?
Wish us.
During the time on June,
June, yeah, where did you get it?
Was it an over the counter in
the Dominican or back home?
Football. Yeah.
The cholesterol did say that on the label.
I'm not sure about that.
Sources you have, why didn't you reach
out to Simona Padres to make sure
this is something you could take?
It was this stupid. Mistake.
It was me being reckless.
It was me not going to the people
I know they can help me. And.
I'm regretting all of that,
but at the end of the day,
like I mentioned, there's no
excuses and there's no other one
to play in the world than me.
How receptive were your teammates when
you spoke to them and how do you expect
to move forward with them going forward?
They were disappointed.
Everybody's disappointed.
I'm disappointed in myself. Umm.
But I feel like we have a strong
talk, we share stuff that.
Is that is tough love?
But, you know, I feel like we put
everything on the table and it needed
to be out there and it's gonna start.
Slowly, one step at a time,
to regain their trust again.
I don't believe you.
They don't believe that this was a mistake,
that it was something more malicious,
especially with what we've
seen with people saying things
before and testing positive.
What would you say to those fans
who don't believe your story? That
I'm going to give them a
story to believe in me again?
So again, this was for a skin thing.
Rather than trying to get the wrist
to the cream that I wear, yeah.
Grass, rather than the rest.
Get input. That's
part of the oil.
Companeros.
Don't buy somewhere down there.
I don't buy some more important than Jake.
And seal and seal the deal on me.
I'm in company.
Fanatical.
And they were like a seal momento
momento Mori maleficia let me
be there momento Maleficent.
Affect
hello, it's implemented Kitamura
and Fernando. Get more echo.
So real quick for our English media.
I'm gonna go ahead and translate
the question which was how big of
a step is this for you to be down
here and face your organization,
your teammates to which Fernando answered,
you know this is a big step.
This is, you know,
the most terrible time of my life.
I've had trouble sleeping.
So for me to come down here and show face,
this was an important step for me.
You know to meet with the organization
to meet with my teammates.
You know, to move forward.
How long before the test did you?
Or were you still taking it?
By the time I was taking
the cream was the test here.
Or on the road?
Or do they have you go
somewhere at your doctor's?
I think I was on the road.
When did you know you tested positive
because you you appealed it right?
So have you been how long have you known
that you tested positive since late July?
Why did you drop your appeal?
It was not just myself,
there was a team out there giving me advice.
In the beginning, we felt like we have
a very strong case moving forward.
I really don't know how
they appeal process work.
Obviously, I got people advising
me and then the date was coming
short and they advised me that
there was no likely that we were
going to be able to win, win.
And so we decided to start serving
the suspension right away,
which is that you're talking
about your agency, right? There
was a team out there,
but at the end of the day,
everything is something.
Everything is on me.
It was my choices and at the
end of the day it's my career.
What is mystically the next? The next
step for you from here?
What do you do with the rest of
this season to kind of stay ready?
Where do you go from your logistics?
I feel like we have health wise compromises.
We're gonna check boxes.
Moving forward, looks like I'm
gonna have surgery on my shoulder
and I feel like I'm gonna have to
be spending a good time here in San
Diego during the offseason where I'm
going to spend most of the time and.
I feel like we have a really
good plan moving forward.
What made you decide to have what changed
your mind on the shoulder surgery? How
is feeling a little bit coming back?
I was in my best version out there.
A couple games I got in the way.
I was thinking and not diving head first, not
doing this stereotype movement
and I feel like when I come back.
And start everything all over.
I need to be 100%
so I can do what I know what to do.
What was the main message
that you wanted to say in the
clubhouse and coming off of that?
What was your sense for like
how you would be welcomed back
by your by your teammates.
No, I'm truly sorry I am not have seen
the mistake. I have a cough. Seen.
All the distraction now costing my teammate.
Not being there since day one,
you know it all has track back together.
You have snowball on me and I just
let them know and show my face.
Telling them that it was gonna change now
I'm gonna take better steps moving forward.
And I'm gonna the I was gonna make sure
that all of this never happens again.
Was status companeros?
The perspective of us.
Father mucho mucho no.
Hello Simon. Comma, comma.
Taking a superado kayaking a
Sunnyvale and look at your. La Cara.
Simplement. So yummy. And no matter
how solo European, so I don't know.
So the question was,
what was the response from your
teammates to which Fernando replied,
you know, a lot of support, you know,
these guys got my back and, you know,
I wanted to make sure that I came down
here and showed my face and, you know,
be honest with them and ask them for help.
Ask them that they, you know,
look after me, you know, keep me in line.
But it was a lot of support,
you know, and a lot of love, tough
love. You mentioned, you mentioned
multiple mistakes beginning of the year.
How would you have handled the
motorcycle situation differently now?
The first case I would've got
in the motorcycle feel that's
just the truth about it and.
Yeah, in the end they you do
regrets of all of this, you see
all the damage that you cause.
I've seen how many people have drag
with my mistakes. And I'm willing to
change all of that and yes, and not
drag them down again to that same Rd.
You had a massive guaranteed contract
and missed a lot of games on the field.
You're going to miss games all
the way in the next season.
What are your thoughts about that
piece of it, the amount of enormous
investment the franchise put in you,
but you really struggle to stay on the field?
I struggled this year had made mistakes.
And I'm learning from it.
I'm going to learn and I'm
going to make them change.
Feel like we have a long way to go.
But still, that's not an excuse,
so I'm gonna make sure from we go from
now on is gonna be total different
story you and the organization both.
Made a big deal about calling
this a statue contract as the
statue in your mind right now.
Sitting here is that still potentially
in your future or is that seem
like attainable at this point?
Still, my future still think that can regain.
Everybody's trust and love down the
road it's not gonna take a couple of
days it's gonna be a very long time.
I'm looking forward to that
challenge at the end of the day I'm
still 23 as that's not an excuse,
but I'm saying I've got a long
time in front of me and a couple
of your teammates had some pretty
pointed comments the day it was
announced that you were suspended.
What were your thoughts when
you heard those comments from
from a couple of those guys?
Then there was a lot of emotion going on.
It was something that surprised everybody.
Everybody that everybody was shocked.
I was. I was selling way worse
off myself in the mirror and I I
took it in and they were honest.
They were honest. That's the truth.
And now it's up to me.
How can I get back?
And so, you know, get better
at it, so you better.
You're looking here and.
Luciente. Kinda. OK. But
tempo. Federal Council the side?
Comma.
Trying. I will need.
Yeah, so the question was what would
you say to the fans out there,
and Fernandez's response was truthfully that.
I'm sorry, you know and that hopefully with
time you know gained their forgiveness,
regain their trust and
regain their affection.
Obviously this has been a terrible situation
for myself and we all make mistakes.
Not that that's an excuse,
but you know, over time,
hopefully I can regain their their affection.
What about the?
What would you say to fans who wander?
Now that doubt whether you're still the
kind of player you've showed before.
In other words, the stuff you've
done in the past might have
been artificially enhanced.
Worse than every everything
I have done in the past,
I've got nothing to do with it,
but at the same time I'm giving
those reasons to think that way.
But it's up to me now to
start looking to the future.
And like I mentioned before,
start start making those changes and
give them give them a better act,
a better show.
And I promise I'm gonna
do when I come back.
First time you've done this.
How mentally strong are you
to deal with what's ahead,
whether you know, whether you've
gone from the face of baseball?
Imagine losing endorsements you
grow in Petco Park and you're
signage has been taken down
just to get reputation back.
How mentally tough are you to to handle this?
Look, I'm ready. I'm ready.
Something.
It's going to be hard. It's
not going to be easy.
There's going to be a lot of cheering.
So whenever we go to
different stages even.
But it's a challenge.
I'm looking forward to it,
but at the same time I'm going
to demonstrate them that,
you know I'm human,
I'm making mistake,
but that when I come back
it's going to be even better.
That this could follow you the rest
of your career. Yes, you
Fernando. When do you plan to
have the surgery and when do
you think you will be back?
I feel like we haven't discussed
right yet with the medical staff.
There's a certain point,
but it's gonna feel like it's gonna
be ASAP and I'm gonna be ready as
soon as they they let me out next
year. I'll take one more question, OK?
Are you going to stay around the
team's next until then or out for
the surgery or you can be around the
teammates and you guys here? Yeah,
I'll be around. I'll be. I'll be here.
Thank you appreciate your time.