Performance-Enhancing Drugs and the MLB

From Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens to Manny Ramirez and Marlon Byrd, and even speculation of our own former Chicago Cubs player Sammy Sosa, performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball has been prevalent in baseball for many years since the 1980’s. Although there were many players who used drugs throughout the nineties, anti-doping policies were not implemented into the MLB until 2003. 

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Today, the MLB and the players union reached an agreement to add random, in-season human blood and testosterone testing. The new testing will create extensive profiles to establish a player's baseline testosterone level and increase its ability to detect the use of testosterone. Although the new testing is very beneficial to many MLB players and fans that want a fair game, will the testing really stop players from using performance-enhancing drugs? 

Just one year after anti-doping policies were introduced to the MLB, many baseball players continued to find ways to use performance-enhancing drugs with the help of player unions.  In 2004, George Mitchell, and American businessman, made it public that he was concerned that the players union was give warnings of upcoming random drugs tests, allowing the players to stop the use of the drugs before the test and therefore passing the tests. The players union was not allowed to do this and broke an agreement they made with the MLB. While protecting the dirty players, the union essentially casted off the players who chose to remain clean. 

Looking at what has happened in the past with player unions telling players when there are testings, do you think the addition blood tests and enhanced technology will really make a difference in the use of performance-enhancing drugs throughout the MLB? Why or why not?