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Originally posted by KSig RC
According to people who study this sort of thing, by FAR the most common case is someone like Matt Lawton - that's also (one reason) why there are multiple minor leaguers caught for every MLB player*: the 'classic' steroid case, so far, has been a guy trying to 'hang on' or 'take the leap' or recover from injury faster (Lawton was pretty much all three, w/ the NYY).
You should really pick up Will Carroll's book "The Juice: The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems" - Carroll writes for Baseball Prospectus as their injury guy, he's head of some national athletic training orgs. It's pretty unbiased, and he gets a couple of guys to (anonymously) do 'case studies' - one minor leaguer, one major leaguer, and one guy who helped develop what became known as 'the Cream' at BALCO.
Interesting stuff - CS, I'll send you my copy if you want . . .
*Obviously there are other reasons - for instance, major leaguers can afford to pay more for 'designer' (and more likely undetectable) substances . . . rounds of hGH and IGF-1 cost around $1k/mo., so obviously these will be more of a problem at the highest level.
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Oh absolutely, there are other issues with it, and that's a big reason why I'm interested to see who actually is caught. Is it a pitcher in his late 30's who is still throwing in the upper 90's? Is it one of those hanger-ons, or will it be the stud slugger that people automatically associate with roids?
I like Carrol's writing, so I may have to pick that up. I'm going to pick up the book by the two San Fran reporters, so maybe I'll just get all my roid reading out of the way at once.