Canseco: Current Hall-of-Famer Used Steroids
Jose Canseco thinks Major League Baseball has a bigger problem on their hands than active players like Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz being busted for steroids. He alleges that a current Baseball Hall-of-Famer used the juice.
“When you tell me something I didn’t already know, I’ll be surprised,” Canseco told ESPN. “And I’ll tell you this, Major League Baseball is going to have a big, big problem on their hands when they find out they have a Hall of Famer who’s used.”
When asked who the player was, Canseco refused to ellaborate:
“It’s not about naming names,” he said. “I’ve never had anything against the players. It’s always been against Major League Baseball. I know who’s on that list, but like I said, it’s not about attacking the players. It’s about the machine that allowed this to happen. What I speak out of my mouth is the truth. It burns like fire. Just remember, I have never lied about this subject.”
Reaction: At almost every turn, Canseco has been right on during this steroids mess. Other than refusing to connect his buddy Roger Clemens to steroids, Canseco has been reliable when it comes to the PED issue. So, we must wonder…who used steroids?
It’s almost impossible to allege, but I would imagine it would be a player that joined the hall recently. Without tying anyone specific to steroids, here’s a list of players elected to the Hall since 2000:
- Rickey Henderson
- Jim Rice
- Rich “Goose” Gossage
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
- Tony Gwynn
- Bruce Sutter
- Wade Boggs
- Ryne Sandberg
- Paul Molitor
- Dennis Eckersley
- Eddie Murray
- Gary Carter
- Ozzie Smith
- Dave Winfield
- Kirby Puckett
- Carlton Fisk
- Tony Perez
Hmmm…
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My Top 3 from this list:
-Ricky Henderson
-Jim Rice
-Cal Ripken Jr.
Jose’s already stated that it wasn’t Rickey. So that narrows it down even further. Ripken seems likely, but I wouldn’t rule out Boggs or Sandberg.
I betcha its Sandberg….look at his stats..from 88-92 he hit 131 of his 282 career h.r.’s..he went from hitting 14-15 to 40….i always thought something was fishy about his power production even back then.
Another probable candidate is Eckersly. Any ballplayer who goes from ordinary to spectacular, especially late in his career, and played on that Canseco/McGuire A’s team, is strongly suspect. As for Sandberg, looks like the same story as Dykstra, light hitter with a homer explosion. Very suspicious.
Jeez. Imagine if it was Ripken. Roger Angell-George Will types would committ ritual suicide.
Sandberg and Boggs have been very outspoken critics of steroid users, saying they shouldn’t be eligible for the HOF.
You could argue that they’re putting up that “good guy” front so they can use it as a defense if/when it goes public that they used PEDs (similar to Curt Schilling?), but I think they’re clean.
I have no evidence other than intuition.
#1 Henderson… He was an ego maniac and his physique was steroid like at the end of his career. I think if he used; it was in the later part of his career like Bonds. I think both him and bonds should be evaluated pre-steroids and they deserve to be in… I m not worried about integrity because the hall of fame has plenty of assholes in it…
#2 Puckett…His abuse of women is a red flag but Pucket looked fat… I don’t know…Maybe…
#3 outside chances that Eckersley and Ripken used… Ripken might have fallen into the trap of using it for recovery purposes…Recovering from injuries… Eckersely, i don’t think so but who knows anymore…
Paul Molitor — a 10-homer .280 guy in his prime, somehow became a 30-homer .330 guy after age 35. And finished with over 3,300 hits, more than Willie Mays and 9th place all time!
Sandberg too no doubt. And Ripken. And a bunch of others.
It’s Molitor. He was hitting 200+ hits into his 40′s.