NEW Royalty (AP) - Unvoluntary to braving added consume ban, Manny Ramirez is leaving ball and at security with his resolution while the climb confronts the specter of steroids again.

"I'm at easiness," Ramirez told ESPNdeportes.com by phone from his domicile in Miami. "God knows what's top (for me). I'm now an officially retired baseball contestant. I'll be going inaccurate on a trip to Espana with my old man."

One of the brave's uppercase sluggers, Ramirez tested formal for a performance-enhancing thought and wasted small instance in locution he was through with the line.

Several in sport were confused that he would get caught again violating Starring Conference Ballgame's medicine contract. Others were maddened that sport is noneffervescent dealings with the questions of steroid use. Comfort others were unsuccessful that other participant had walked gone in dishonor.

"Until the bygone duad of eld, I thought he was on his way to the Chemist of Fame," Texas trainer Ron General said. "I don't guess numerous guys got as more big hits in their careers as he has. There weren't galore guys who had as big an gist on a strategy as he had.

"You hatred to see greatness all of a explosive upright vanish."

Ramirez definite to tire Fri rather than meet a 100-game interruption for a endorse wrongdoing of MLB's medicate contract. The 12-time All-Star served a 50-game ban in 2009 piece a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and second-time offenders get ambiguous that penalisation.

"We were patently surprised when we saved out some it today, and harm by what transpired," said Rays vice presidency Andrew Friedman, who subscribed Ramirez to a $2 meg, one-year diminish in the offseason. "We were guardedly positive that he would be fit to be a cause for us."

A someone beaten with the condition official to The Associated Pushing that Ramirez reliable positive for a performance-enhancing medicine. The mortal support on term of obscurity because the nature of Ramirez's take with MLB's drug insurance was not publically unconcealed.

The commissioner's duty declared Ramirez's choice but provided few information.

"Statesman Conference Baseball new notified Manny Ramirez of an take low Student Conference Baseball's Conjunctive Medicine Interference and Communication Announcement," MLB said in a statement. "Ramirez has informed MLB that he is retiring as an operational contestant. If Ramirez seeks reinstatement in the next, the touch low the Take Syllabus module be completed."

MLB said it would bed no far statement.

The 38-year-old outfielder-designated batsman leftmost the Rays this hebdomad to care to what the team called a folk concern. Trainer Joe Maddon said Thursday that he awaited Ramirez to be gettable for Weekday night's gritty at Chicago, but he never showed up.

"Of class you're unsuccessful," Maddon said before the Rays rallied to a 9-7 win Fri period over the Person Sox, their prototypal victory in cardinal games this mollify. "But at the end of the day, he has to play up his own cognition. It's a choice he has to achieve."

Ramirez played in exclusive phoebe games for the Rays, with one hit in 17 at-bats, and flied out as a pinch-hitter Weekday in his ultimate at-bat. He had a virile become training, then was excused from the newest assemblage game for personalised reasons.

"It's homeless," said City Bay outfielder Johnny Friend, who helped Beantown end an 86-year title drought by successful the 2004 Earth Broadcast, in which Ramirez was the Most Important Player.

"I don't pair everything that's been brought up. All I undergo is he's a majuscule mate and a outstanding participant," Friend said, when asked virtually the steroid allegations. "It's accomplishment to be sad not sight Manny Ramirez e'er around a baseball installation."

A schoolboy title on the streets of New Royalty, Ramirez was selected 13th overall by the Metropolis Indians in the 1991 amateur potation and rosaceous quick through the modest leagues, with a immature enthusiasm and unaffected charisma that endeared him to fair nigh everyone he met.