If Barry bonds and/or those other drug enhancement users didn't use them what would be your predicted stats..?

Question

For their career?
For their best season?

Answer 1

"ZERO" Once you cheat you forfeit all of your stats. Who's to say when it started. For all we know it could have started in high school. His father played major league baseball. Do you think he was never expose to, at the very least, the knowledge that these types of drugs and their availability? His godfather Willie Mays, at the very least, knew the same thing.

The only reason he is still playing is because Bud Segil continues to turn his back on the problem. Segil is a bigger disgrace to the game because he has the power to strengthen things out but he just won't do it.

You need to stop projecting what is in all reality a bogus baseball career on the part of Bonds. It's this kind of nonsense that continues to blacken the eye of the game. His career is nothing more than a lie!!!!

Answer 2

I think you would see a substantial dip in production, on the order of 20% lower in most categories.

I suspect that many of the users do so for healing more than for size and strength.

Look at Jason Giambi in the 2002-2005 window. Yes, he was suffering a mysterious "benign tumor," but given his role in the BALCO scandal of 2003, your evidence for enhancement is there.

2001 = .342 Average, 38 HRs, 154 Games
2002 = .314 Average, 41 HRs, 155 Games
2003 = .250 Average, 41 HRs, 156 Games
2004 = .208 Average, 12 HRs, 80 Games
2005 = .271 Average, 32 HRs, 139 Games
2006 = .253 Average, 37 HRs, 139 Games

What also jumps out is the plate appearances and games. The post BALCO Giambi doesn't play as much. Yes, he's older, but off the 'roids, he's not able to stay as healthy. He's playing in 25+ less games, so his stats have less chance to be inflated.

For Bonds, without juice, I don't think at his age he'd beat Maris that year, much less bash 70+...

Answer 3

Barry was an amazing player before the roids era. He'd probably never have hit 73 in a season but he would have hit 60+. He'd really only be short a few HRs, but he'd have retired last year and would never reach Aarons record due to injury.

McGwire was a HR machine, I think his stats would be very similar to what they are.

Sosa is suspected of not only using drugs but we also know he used a corked bat. I think without both of those he'd have a lot fewer HRs, RBIs and probably his best year would have been around 55 HRs.

Answer 4

Right now, the correct answer is, the same as their stats are now, since nobody's proven that they used steroids yet.