Former Illinois State pitcher Matt Herges was among the Major League baseball players linked to performance enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report released on Thursday. | Herges' player page

An attempt by the Pantagraph to contact Herges for comment was unsuccessful.

The report includes evidence Herges purchased Human Growth Hormone from Kirk Radomski, a personal trainer and former employee of the New York Mets. Radomski told former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell he made two or three sales of HGH to Herges from as early as 2004 to late in 2005.

Radomski provided a check from Herges dated November 1, 2005, for $3,240 as payment for two kits of HGH, plus $40 shipping. The report says a piece of an undated shipping receipt to Herges and a copy of an Express Mail receipt dated November 2, 2005, sent to the same address were seized from Radomski's home by federal agents.

Radomski told Mitchell that Herges, a Champaign native, said he had obtained his telephone number from Paul Lo Duca, a teammate of Herges with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1999 to 2001. Radomski said Herges even called him after the federal search warrant was executed on his home and asked Radomski if he could sell him HGH.

The 37-year-old Herges, a right-handed reliever who helped the Colorado Rockies to the World Series this year, has played for eight big-league teams since leaving ISU in 1992 to sign with the Dodgers as an undrafted free agent.

He was 5-1 with a 2.96 earned run average for the Rockies this season. His career totals include 479 appearances, a 37-30 record and a 3.82 ERA.

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Mitchell Report links

• Clemens, Bonds, Tejada named in Mitchell Report

• Full report (PDF)

• List of players named

• Kindred: There are not enough asterisks to go around

• Former ISU pitcher Herges named in report

• Congressmen want new hearing; one calls on Selig to quit

• Mitchell Report spurs outrage, sadness and calls for reform

• Canseco barred from attending Mitchell news conference

• Pantagraph's MLB page