It appears that Jose Bautista was tested for PEDs quite a bit since he started hitting home runs.
Bautista spoke at a banquet the other night and noted that in the past two years — the two years which coincided with his tremendous uptick in homers — he has been given sixteen drug tests. In the two years before that he had three total.
Good. This is exactly what MLB should be doing to drive out the notion that a player is doping. A surge in power like that should raise a red flag. I’m glad that it did. Since Jose has not been suspended, we should assume he’s clean.
Sigh. Designers steroids and short acting steroids make that a poor assumption.
Also, why is power the only red flag?. Guys like Pedroia could be juicing for all we know, not to mention pitchers who comeback from the dead like Colon, or off an injury riddled year like Beckett did last year.
pft » It may not be the only red flag. Few players talk about this, however.
Did they test Ellsbury a lot?
16!! You would have thought after 4 or 5 they would have twigged that he either isn’t taking or he has found a way to circumvent