Cubs not shocked by report that Sosa tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs

Sosa report doesn’t shock Cubs

CHICAGO — Cubs slugger Derrek Lee says he never saw Sammy Sosa take any banned substances.

He couldn’t avoid hearing the rumors, though, so when The New York Times reported Tuesday that his former teammate tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, Lee wasn’t shocked.

Even so, he’s disappointed.

Injured Cubs third baseman Aramis Ramirez says “nothing surprises me anymore.”

The newspaper, citing lawyers familiar with the case, reported Sosa is one of 104 players who tested positive in a 2003 baseball survey. The paper did not identify the drug.

Sosa ranks sixth on baseball’s career home run list with 609, and he hit most of them with the Cubs. He last played in the majors in 2007 with the Texas Rangers.