A Lot of Questions, but No Answers After Wiggins’ Saga Reaches Day 30

The 30 days are up. So the question arises: What’s up with Alan Wiggins?

Is he out of the drug treatment center? What do the doctors say? Is he fit to play baseball?

There are no answers. All that’s known is that Wiggins checked into an unidentified drug rehabilitation center on April 27th, supposedly for 30 days. And the prime people involved in this ordeal will shed no further light.

For instance, Tony Attanasio, Wiggins’ agent, was reached at home Sunday night and said: “I’m not talking. Bye.”

Attanasio hung up the phone.

And Ballard Smith, Padre team president, still stands by his May 4 statement that Wiggins will not play again in San Diego this season.

“I haven’t heard anything,” said Smith, who says he hasn’t talked to Attanasio since May 4. “To be perfectly honest, I haven’t thought about it. We’ve said all we’re going to say on the matter. It’s just not an issue . . . We’ve already stated what will happen this year. And that isn’t going to change.

“We’ll try to move forward. The club has done a tremendous job (without him).”

And that may be a key issue. Had the Padres slipped on the field, Wiggins’ people may have had some leverage, a way to negotiate Wiggins back onto the field this year. But San Diego has won seven straight games and is in first place.

Inevitably, this situation will be dealt with by the player’s association, which is expected to file a grievance against the Padres for deciding Wiggins can’t play. But then, if doctors say Wiggins isn’t ready to play, then that’s not an issue.

So what do the doctors say?

Wiggins father, Albert, reached at his Los Angeles home Sunday night, said he doesn’t know if Wiggins is out of the treatment center.

“But it shouldn’t be too long from now,” he said, stating the obvious.