In November 2013, the Cardinals signed Jhonny Peralta to a four-year deal, less than four months after Peralta had been suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs, and we got to have a What It All Means conversation.
Peralta was coming off a strong offensive season -- he'd bounced back from an awful age-30 season to hit .303 -- and the incentives his new contract raised seemed too obvious not to worry about. "Apparently getting suspended for PED's means you get a raise. What's stopping anyone from doing it?" big league reliever David Aardsma tweeted.