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Originally posted by KSig RC
This is still a matter of contention; however, there are a few things you're not considering when implying that steroids don't help power hitters:
-Steroids grant a major advantage in the muscles' recovery time - this allows weight lifting to not only be more efficient, but also allows one to get back into the weight room even after extreme sessions - certainly an advantage to burly sluggers
-Steroids allow for far lessened recovery time for injury, again an advantage to those whose swings are violent, as well as those with positional disadvantages to being huge (think... Sheffield/Bonds/Giambi) - sluggers tend to get injured more
That aside, I agree that there's not a single ballplayer 'type' that couldn't benefit from steroids - and while the hand/eye coordination is not improved, the ability to actually be on the field to utilize that coordination most certainly is. It's not just base stealers.
One major overlooked category? Pitchers! Obviously, pitchers were using as well, a massive disadvantage to hitters . . . especially closers, who could then do amazing things like throw 95 for 5 nights in a row.
Totally agree with this, man - it just seems . . . weak. Alex Sanchez might seriously have been the worst player in baseball, and now he's the answer to a trivia question? Something's not right.
As far as 'false positives' - the system is much different than the NFL policy, and no over-the-counter items are on the list (unlike the NFL, which bans high levels of MANY legal supplements for being performance-enhancing).
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You pretty much said what I said. I'm just not buying the argument that it only "helped" the big burly guys. Heck Darryl Strawberry was launching them and he never took steroids. Now he was riding that white horse but, not steroids.
PITCHERS! You were right on the money on that one.
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