Steroids In Baseball

The debate over baseball player’s doping has been around since the 1990’s. The players of today are always try to get that competitive edge in baseball so they can end up in the hall of fame. They want to be the Mark McGwire or Barry Bonds were the players can produce record breaking stats without training or working for that title. Any MLB player that as ever doped or has taken steroids should banded from professional baseball and not allowed in the hall of fame. History shows that steroids due produce extraordinary results when used in the major league baseball. Players such as Barry Bonds the man who holds the record for the most home runs ever hit in a career used steroids, and Mark McGuire who holds the record for most home runs hit

Most of the players have decided to use steroids because it helps them to increase their muscles faster. This drug makes the players anxious and the desire for exercise is more often. Most of the fans think that the increase of home runs of the 2006 season is mostly caused by players using performance-enhanced drugs; this fact is based by earlier results of 47% of the fans agreeing on this issue conducted by USA Today/Gallup Poll (Newman, 2006). Also, the players see this like an opportunity to move faster in the system and be seen as a top player to be considering a big value on the market. This situation is so important for the fans and anyone that follows this sport. It is more important for the youngest players that grow up watching and playing baseball, admiring professional players like Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa. These are some of the big names that appear in the book published by an ex-player, Jose Canseco, implicating them that they had used steroids in the past. Since then, the commissioner of MLB, Bud Selig, issued a tougher steroid policy, which says “‘three strikes and you 're out approach’ which goes as follows: The first positive test would result in a fifty game suspension. The second positive test would result in a one-hundred game suspension. Finally, the third positive test would result in a lifetime suspension from Major League Baseball” (Selig, 2005). This means

The cost and time are also effective. First of all, the cost is not that much to run this test. The MLB has their proper laboratories especially for this purpose (steroid test). This is not for sure, but it is speculated that owners pay a little extra to help the MLB to support their laboratories. There are also fines for players that violate this policy. These fines are issued for punishments and part of them to contribute the steroids policy. The fines would only work for the first offense. The MLB decides if the player should get a 10-day suspension without pay or that player should be fined $10,000 (Bodley, 2005). One of the best things of this policy is that the time is convenient. As I mentioned before every player is tested every year, and they can have the results during the season. The MLB also tests randomly, or if anyone is suspicious they may be asked to take a test to determine if that player is using