We’re less than a month away from finding out the next class of inductees into the baseball Hall of Fame. A few former Boston Red Sox players are on the ballot and for some of them, their chances of making it to Cooperstown depend on voters softening their stance on penalizing suspected performance-enhancing drug users.
PED has become the dirtiest word in baseball. It’s a dark stain on the reputation of any player associated with MLB’s most polarizing scandal in decades. You don’t even necessarily need to have failed a drug test in your career. Being accused of cheating on the basis of circumstantial evidence can be enough to sway the court of public opinion.