Doesn’t a sporting culture where players could be honest about how they treat themselves – running experiments on their own bodies to find what suits them best and optimizing themselves to extract the best performances possible – sound like something sports should embrace, not run from?

Admittedly, I have a strong opinion about PEDs; I hope the good players on the Red Sox don't get caught.

I was wondering how long it would take to get from "Starling Marte suspended" to "see, baseball still has a massive PED problem and won't someone think of the children."

If he's right, that would strike me that the system they have now is having the desired effect. You're never going to get 100 percent compliance,

I estimated somewhere between two and five guys per clubhouse are using some version of substances baseball would frown upon. This may be high. It may be low, too.

I don't see why a sporting event in which the result is determined by who has the best needles would be interesting.

I don't see why a sporting event in which the result is determined by who has the best needles would be interesting.

The vast, vast majority of people who think and write the[] kind of things [SBB writes] are

I don't see why a sporting event in which the result is determined by who has the best needles would be interesting.

I don't see why a sporting event in which the result is determined by who has the best needles would be interesting.

That was the league position for the last 20 years, I don't think you have much to worry about.

That was the league position for the last 20 years, I don't think you have much to worry about.

Not when the cost is the lives and health of all the athletes who get it wrong while trying to figure it out.

In sharp contrast to the apologists on this site, you have Anthony Rizzo calling for much more testing and Jake Diekman calling for PEDs users to make the minimum salary for the rest of their careers.

Why else would the owners care who uses?

1) You don't want to sign a guy to a 7-year contract based on a heavy steroid regimen, then to have him go off that regimen out of health fears, once his last big payday was in the bank.

2) Liability issues. If the owners foster an environment where you must use to compete, they opne themselves to class action lawsuits a la the NFL concussion issues.

If you're good enough to be in MLB with the help of all the technological, medical, training, and countless other advantages that wealthier American-born players get during their development years over poorer foreign-born players

Given the vast over-representation of Dominicans in MLB, relative to population, any impact would seem to be in the Dominicans favor.

"They look, talk, and act like me!"

Dunno, people loved McGwire and Sosa plenty at the time.

Being from the DR is a big part of this story. It's higbly unlikely Marte was intentionally taking nandrolone, but rather taking non-detectable PEDs from a lab that also manufactured it and cross-contaminated its product.

there's no reason to whip out the race card just because someone suggests Kris Bryant is more likeable than Barry Bonds