From TH: "David Cornwell, the lead attorney for the defense team that successfully appealed the positive drug test of Brewers leftfielder Ryan Braun last winter, issued a statement Tuesday night saying that Anthony Bosch's contributions were "negligible." After Braun's name surfaced on the logs of the Miami anti-aging clinic linked to supplying baseball players with performance-enhanching drugs, Braun issued a statement saying his attorneys merely used Bosch, the clinic's operator, as a consultant in their defense planning for the arbitration hearing. But Cornwell downplayed any contributions that Bosch made to that defense strategy, which ultimately overturned the positive test on a chain-of-custody dispute. "In the 15 years that I have represented players facing discipline under the various professional sports leagues' substance abuse and steroid programs, I have relied primarily, if not exclusively, on Dr. David L. Black and his team of scientists at Aegis Sciences Corporation in Nashville, TN as my experts with respect to scientific and other matters relevant to the testing of player specimens," Cornwell's statement said. "I was not familiar with Tony Bosch prior to Ryan Braun's case. Bosch was introduced to me at the earliest stage of Ryan's case. "I found Bosch's value to be negligible and I followed my prior practice of relying on Aegis in the preparation of Ryan's winning defense." Citing a source familiar with the appeal, the New York Times reported that Braun's defense team never mentioned Bosch's name during the hearing before an arbitration panel."