So says steroid-stained relief pitcher Jenrry Mejia, the first major leaguer to be permanently banned from the game by Major League Baseball for violating the Joint Drug Agreement three times.  In an interview with The New York Times for a story posted online Friday, the Dominican-born pitcher said through an interpreter that baseball officials told him if he filed an appeal after his second positive test (in 2015), MLB would “find a way to find a third positive.”  “I felt there was a conspiracy against me. I feel that they were trying to find something to bring me down in my career,” Mejia said in the Times report.  HARPER: BY KEEPING MEJIA, METS FLUNKED TEST OF THEIR OWN  The righthander, who played for the Mets since 2007, received the lifetime ban last month after the third positive test, the last for hard-core steroid boldenone.  The first two positive tests were for stanozolol, the drug Canadian Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson made famous in 1988.  Dan Halem, MLB’s chief legal officer, told the Daily News Friday that Mejia’s allegation could not be further from the truth.  “Major League Baseball vigorously denies the allegation. No one from MLB has ever spoken to Mr. Mejia. We're not going to have any further comment because the process regarding positive tests is confidential per the Joint Drug Agreement,” said Halem.  FOLLOW THE DAILY NEWS SPORTS ON FACEBOOK. "LIKE" US HERE  Peter Greenberg, Mejia’s agent, had no comment when reached, other than to say, “There are confidentiality provisions.”  In the Times report, Mejia also said baseball officials pressured him to give up information about any doping connections he had, and the pitcher blasts the Players Association for not properly representing one of its members.  “The association should have done more,” Mejia said in the report, adding that the union “should have been there to defend me — because that’s what they’re there for. They should have found something to appeal for.”  The Players Association declined comment.  Mejia’s attorney, Queens-based Vincent White, could not be reached.  White said in the Times report, “For us, this is a collective bargaining issue, this is a labor issue, this is an employer who we see perhaps overstepping.”  Mejia, 26, can apply for reinstatement in one year, but he must serve at least a two-year ban.  “I wouldn’t change a thing,” Mejia told the Times. “If the situation was meant to happen, then it was meant to happen. If God wanted it that way, it’s going to happen. All you have to do is admit your guilt when you are guilty. And stay positive when you’re not.”
Jenrry Mejia is innocent and a victim of a giant baseball conspiracy. That's the story the banned Met is pitching these days.