The 36-year-old Rose pleaded guilty on Nov. 7 to distributing the steroid alternative GBL, a drug he used as a sleep aid, to some of his teammates with the Chattanooga Lookouts, a third-level minor league team which Rose played on in 1997, 2001 and 2002.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration has said Rose's arrest was part of a larger investigation into a major GBL trafficking organization.
Rose played most of his career in the minor leagues, but made it to the majors for 11 games with the Reds in 1997, going 2-for-14. Last season, he played for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League.
Pete Rose Sr holds the MLB record of 4,256 hits. He agreed to a lifetime ban from MLB in 1989 following an investigation that he bet on games; after 14 years of denials, he admitted in his autobiography that he bet on Reds games while managing them in the late 1980s.
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