Nolan Ryan hears that the Biogenesis investigation will be a “long, drawn-out affair”

Nolan Ryan has a Rangers player in the Biogenesis scandal: Nelson Cruz. But he’s no to worried about losing Cruz for the stretch run. Why? ESPN Dallas reports:

Ryan said, based on his talks with MLB, the investigation is going to be a “long, drawn-out affair ... I don’t know that there’s a time frame that they’re dealing with,” Ryan said. “I know that they’re in a fact-finding mode right now, so we’ll just have to wait and see how that plays out. But do I worry about losing Nellie here shortly? No, I don’t. I really think he’ll be with us and we’ll just have to see where that goes.”

If Major League Baseball really is planning on a mass suspension, I wonder if they won’t wait until the offseason. Maybe to announce it, but more likely to time things in such a way so as to ensure that suspensions begin at the start of next season rather than the middle of this one.

I mean, yes, on one level you could argue that there is unfairness either way (i.e. it’s unfair to let players who cheated continue to play now and/or it’s unfair to yank a bunch of players off rosters in the middle of a pennant race) but Major League Baseball is an organization which usually tries to take the least radical means possible. I feel like they wouldn’t want to indelibly stamp a season as The Suspension Season in midstream.