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Will MLBPA Look at Steroid Use By Players the Same as it viewed Scab Players?

   Although posted yesterday, the issue of steroid use and its effects will not go away anytime soon.
   Most of us by now know that steroid testing is being conducted in a random manner. Past policies were insulting to the collective sports world's intelligence when compared with Olympic testing, for example.
   Human Growth Hormone and amphetamine use were not included in the most recent policy (for obvious reasons).
   Almost half of the players that were caught of Latin American descent. The players from the A's list were mostly Venezuelan. Is this coincidental or has there been greater pressure on these athletes that come from 3rd world countries to succeed at all costs?
   Personally, it's tragic when some of those players are our own that we are anticipating doing well over time. A's director Keith Leippman commented that he was aware of our worst offender, catcher David Ortiz(correct me if I'm wrong on the last name). He stated that they reached out to him in various forms without success.
   Does AN suspect more names to come out in such large quantities as yesterday? Secondly, can we realistically expect MLBPA to ever add human growth Hormone and amphetamines to the list of banned substances tested?