There have been several power spikes in baseball history. The main cause has been changes to the baseball and how it’s manufactured. New hitter-friendly parks may have contrinuted to the mid-1990′s power spike, as well. Check out http://steroids-and-baseball.com for more details.

The suspicion about Bautista is ridiculous and deplorable, but drawing conclusions one way or the other based on appearance is no better.

The RC is also not interested in fame since he’s only selling to one guy and keeping his mouth shut about it.

The RC is not interested in a Nobel Prize because he’s doing this illegally and whatever he’s come up with is the SACK of all juice. Nobel Prize winning juice.

The RC’s not interested in notoriety because he’s picked baseball and not say Soccer (a much bigger sport) to make his mark on.

The RC is unlike any scientist I’ve ever met.

That’s a baseless, utterly ridiculous and ignorant assumption.

http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/kirk-minihane/2011/05/24/adrian-gonzalez-best-hitter-baseball

But then its 2011 and hes hit 18 hrs already. If he did use steriods last year and had it out of his system then how do you account for this years performance? I very much doubt that he used last year, stopped just in time to get away with it then started up again this year in the midst of all the steroid talk about him. No one would do that it would be career sucide .

The simpliest answer is usaully the right one and in this case the answer is hes clean. You would think that would be obvious to everyone.

Apparently I’m a fan of using “the same thing.”

No I don’t because I never said that he or anybody was using PEDs. What I’m saying is that; all things considered speculating that PEDs was the direct reason or one of the reasons was fair. And, if I wanted to speculate further as to exactly how with MLB testing program, (such as it is), in conjunction with the astounding increase in productivity I could easily render reasonable circumstances that would explain it. I certainly could provide a better speculative narrative with regard to PED use accounting for this phenomenal improvement than any suggested about Bautista changing his approach at the plate, better mechanics, eating right getting to bed early, or going to church regularly.

PEDs have, still are and will continue to be in MLB for the foreseeable future. Ignoring that possibility will lead to nothing but more widespread PED use. Part of it will be speculation regarding who is or isn’t or did or didn’t use them. And, that speculation will be one of the things that will help minimize future use because it will send a message to players that the fans are still watching and the majority doesn’t like it. Bautista isn’t being smeared he just the latest slugger to have his credentials questioned. Considering that he “.. was nothing more than a scrub…” before last season it not at all unreasonable. And, it’s the players fault so there is a certain karma to it.

That being said, I don’t think anyone actually thinks he will finish with anywhere close to that line. I think he’ll cool off considerably and finish with numbers that resemble a real player and not a player in a Super Nintendo game. I don’t think a hot streak and a 50 home run season are reason enough to scream “STEROIDS! BURN HIM!!!!!”