real green posted:BOF posted:Hopefully clean players are going to finally step up and try to stop these cheaters from continuing to abuse the system. A small $1.3M penalty is nothing when taking into account a $50M contract. The benefits still out weight the risk. Verlander is one who is finally sick and tired and speaking up and if more of their peers something will happen. Unless they do and make the punishments severe it will continue. (Like a minimum of 2 year bans and loss of contracts)
If you do any reading on the subject it is not plausible that Dee Gordon "accidentally" took a supplement, it is factually not possible. He has tested positive for a known "stack of steroids" and unless he specifically names the supplement he took and specifically he lays out what happened EXACTLY - then he is just another cheater. Of course he will say he is sorry, and yes it was a supplement, bla bla bla, all of which are a bunch of lies. Sorry he is just another Barry Bonds, who have cheated all of those honest players who have been penalized for being clean.
Gordon may be a nice guy, but he is still a cheater now with the rest of the bunch.
My guess would be that the percentage of MLB players that have never used PED's is not very large. Verlander's bandwagon might only have a few passengers.
Also, do you believe MLB cares?
Yes MLB cares and pure speculation that percentage is not that large on "never used PED's". I'd say Verlander's band wagon is wide and deep.