Ed note: Sorry for all the links but I am a bit paranoid about photo copyright infringement lawsuits.
Scroll down a bit and look at the two facial shots that are right next to each other. So obvious this guy was taking steroids to extend his fading career, which explains his erratic and apparently violent tendencies today:
Now take a look at these two pictures of another athlete, one from early in his career and the other from after he extended his fading career longer than would have been expected:
Lastly, take a look at these two pictures of an athlete, one from early in his career and the other from after he concluded a consistently excellent career:
Does this prove anything? Of course not. But hey, it doesn't look good.
Because of the secrecy and protectiveness that the bottom-line-obsessed powers that rule Major League Baseball have shown on this issue, which can be equated with the Catholic Church's deliberate mishandling of the pedophiles in its clergy ranks, we are forced to resort to eye tests and scanning for statistical aberrations to determine who was and who wasn't juicing.
And I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it as long as I got breath: As a fielder, Mr. Iron Man Hero was not fit to hold the jock of Alan Trammell, the best overall shortstop of the 1980s. I mean he was planted like a statue out there, and if the ball wasn't hit right to him, he wasn't gonna get it. And then the stats nerds rave about his amazing fielding percentage! HAH!
Oh, but he had more power than Trammell. Yeah, and his power numbers just so happened to go up late in his career (highest slugging percentage came at age 38!), unlike every player who ever played the game before the steroids era.
I am not a Detroit Tigers fan. However, I was a young baseball fan during Trammell's era. And I do believe that no player has been hurt more by steroids in Major League Baseball than Alan Trammell. The man should have been put in Cooperstown years ago.
End of presentation.
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