July 28, 200719 yr Florida Marlins pitching prospect Jeff Allison has returned to the restricted list, a setback in his bid to come back from drug problems. Allison had been working out at the team's spring training and Single-A complex in Jupiter, Fla. "The organization has now become aware of pending legal issues involving Jeff," the Marlins said in a statement Friday. "He has been placed back on the restricted list, and he will remain inactive until all legal issues have been resolved." Allison, a right-handed pitcher from Peabody, Mass., was arrested in October in North Carolina and charged with felony possession of heroin and possession of a stolen vehicle. He was hospitalized last summer in Massachusetts after a friend found him unconscious on a bathroom floor, surrounded by what police said was heroin paraphernalia. Allison was the 16th player selected in the 2003 draft. He has pitched only one season since 2004 and has acknowledged drug addiction. http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/arti...estricted_list/
July 28, 200719 yr way to stay on top of things Marlins Front Office! Yeah...lol It's been nearly a month now? Maybe I am giving them too much credit...
July 28, 200719 yr The F.O. must not get Baseball America or look at it website it has all of Allison's trangresions in a timely chronological order. Either way I hope this can make a rebound ala Josh Hamilton or at least get clean enough to on with his life.
August 28, 200719 yr Former Marlins first-round pick sentenced to jail time Associated Press - August 27, 2007 9:24 AM ET GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A former Florida Marlins first-round draft pick and star pitcher at Peabody High School has been sentenced to 75 days at a North Carolina prison farm. Jeff Allison was sentenced last Thursday after pleading guilty to drug possession and stolen vehicle charges in that state. According to the Salem News, Allison will also serve three years probation after he's released form prison. He was arrested on drug charges twice last October in North Carolina and then failed to show up for a court hearing in December. The 22-year-old was the 16th player selected in the 2003 draft and tried making another comeback with the Marlins in their minor league system this year.
August 28, 200719 yr So I guess the question now is whether he can make it through his prison time without falling back into drug use. Of course now he has been convicted of a crime, is David Samson going to try telling Beinfest to release Allison outright?
August 28, 200719 yr Author Actualy, a prison farm is going to be a lot better for him to detox with then in a regular prison (also will be a helluva lot harder for him to even get his hands on the stuff there). Doesn't mean he won't go back to them once he's out but the prison farm is definitely better then a normal prison in his situation. Doing a lot of hard labor may make him think of getting paid to play a game is probably the best gig in the world and that he shouldn't waste anymore of it.
August 28, 200719 yr This may actually be a good thing for him, and for us, assuming his sentencing affects offseason time and he comes to minor league camp next year.
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