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East Coast Bias
I think he goes to Seattle for 4/52
Jaysfan1994 2
Certainly possible with his good friend Robinson Cano playing in Seattle. Still, I believe he’s got way too many close friends on the Jays to at least not entertain an offer.
Encarnacion's Parrot
I dunno. If he wants to stay in Toronto, 4/52 would be easy for the Jays to swallow. But their owners like to clamp the purse strings at the most ridiculous times, so who knows.
docmilo5
Please, no. Cabrera should play on 1 or 2 year deals. I like the idea of guys caught doing PEDs can only get 1 year deals. He’s probably on an adderall exemption this year. MLB needs to publish it’s PEDs exemption list.
Karkat
I dunno if I’m down with the idea of the MLB publishing private medical information, especially when the only purpose of doing so would be so fans could harass players about it.
docmilo5
I get it. But why should guys get to use PEDs when others can’t? If my favorite team has to compete with a rival that has guys using, um, I mean prescribed a performance enhancer then that my team is at a disadvantage. Fine, don’t tell us. Just put an asterisk next to their name in the box score. 😀
Karkat
I agree that some guys are surely abusing the system, but it’s not worth stigmatizing actual physical and mental health conditions over. What you’re proposing is skirting a dangerous boundary of equating needing medication and being a cheater. There’s actually already a high level of self doubt/feelings of being a “fake” among people who are prescribed ADD medication/anti-anxiety medication/antidepressants/etc, and doing something like this would only reinforce those notions in young fans.
docmilo5
Either Chris Davis has ADD or ADHD or whatever or he doesn’t. He was prescribed Adderall last year and has either has had his meds changed or didn’t really “need” them. If his Rx has been changed then there has to be medications that don’t fall into the performance enhancing department. No one should be using Adderall in the majors if it’s a banned substance. If that means they can’t play in the majors, so be it. Playing in Major League Baseball is not a right, it’s a privilege. It’s just not right to suspend one guy but let others play for contracts while enhanced.
Karkat
So a player (not necessarily talking about Chris Davis) who suffers from ADHD but who would be fine with medication shouldn’t be allowed to play because some people are cheating? How would you like it if you needed medication for something and someone said you couldn’t do your favorite thing because of it?
docmilo5
If the medicine is on the list of peds he can take it, but he shouldn’t be allowed to play. It’s not fair. Find another medication not on the list. ADHD is no different than an injury. If having the condition means he can’t function at a high level that’s too bad. Should we allow people to take steroids because their bodies are to old and can’t recover?
Karkat
Well, you’ve become totally unreasonable, so I’m done with this thread. Have a good one!
docmilo5
I’m not being unreasonable. Michael Morse said he took PEDs to recover from an injury that may have ended his career. He was penalized. Mark McGuire took andro and possibly other things to extend his career. As soon as he got heat for the andro he stopped and his legs fell apart. When Bonds quit, his knees broke down. There is a reason certain drugs are on the list. People can use them all they want, but they shouldn’t be allowed to play. People outside of sports make these decisions all the time.
Why should a banned substance be allowed for any reason?
Jaysfan1994 2
You assume all players are taking Adderall for purposes of helping them with their ADD and ADHD. It’s been proven that people in the world of bodybuilding take Adderall because of its Diuretic properties. Adderall is a Diuretic and Diuretic’s are banned in many sports because of there ability to dilute a drug test sample specifically that of masking steroid use.
ADD can be prescribed with a improper diagnosis. I’m sure the 100’s of athletes that have gotten steroids in the past through a doctor didn’t have the best excuse to purchase them either and I’m really sure MLB doesn’t have 10% of it’s athletes having ADD as it supposedly does right now.
Josh Stuart
It would be Gose not Pompey in CF next year.
NRD1138 2
I would be wary of a former PED user’s resurgence. Is it because they somehow found their swing again, or is it because they found something else, that cannot be easily detected, to take?
snowles
Or, in this case, it could be because last off-season they removed a tumour the size of a baseball from his lower back and spine.
NRD1138 2
I guess I need to learn to read, missed that in the above article. Wow. But in general I see PED users that seem to have an off year only to come back stronger, which is a bit curious.