The Ramble: Steroid Busts, Steroid Tests, Steroid Trials, Steroid Investigations, And Falling Production - Page 3

Dropping Production. Granted, it’s early in the baseball season, but if a large number of players continue to struggle and be less productive and/or more injured than usual - more than a just a handful of players - this situation will need to be discussed in terms of the how the crackdown on PEDs could be responsible. There is no doubt that the increased scrutiny on behalf of the feds has resulted in the arrests of those involved with the manufacturing and distribution of steroids and HGH, which has eliminated many sources of these drugs. Better than any blood or urine test, this crackdown on the flow of these drugs has resulted - at least in the short term – in athletes not using, as they have over the previous decade. As the season progresses, it will be interesting to see if decreased power numbers, lost velocity and diminished durability continues to plague major leaguers.

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