Atlanta Braves CF prospect Jordan Schafer has tested positive for admitted using HGH. Here’s why that’s interesting: Schafer is the Braves’ top prospect and is expected to take over in center next season, if not sooner. MLB doesn’t test for HGH. HGH doesn’t work. Let’s start with number one. Schafer impressed Bobby Cox this offseason, [...]

Here’s the response from the Blogosphere, so far: Fire Joe Morgan: The greatest hitter and the greatest pitcher of this era of baseball were both having superpower-juice regularly injected into their bodies. And we may never know the names of all of the hundreds of other users. Vegas Watch (from its live blog): 2:01 Apparently [...]

I just finished watching Rick Ankiel go 0-4 in this afternoon’s game against the Cubs. He struck out all four times at bat — twice looking. In the Cardinals’ last four games, Ankiel has gone 1-14. The Cards are 0-4. It’s hard to think this doesn’t have everything to do with last week’s revelation that [...]

For those of you who still doubt the power of steroids and HGH, I say behold these before and after shots of Jason Giambi. The before pic, compliments of JoeSportsFan.com, shows Giambi in his pre-performance enhanced days, when he played third base. I don’t think I need to add anything clever here. I think the [...]

There is an interesting piece in Slate today (it ran in the Washington Post over the weekend) on the differences between HGH and steroids, and whether or not we should bother worrying about HGH at all. The author, Daniel Engber, says that using HGH isn’t a very big deal, mostly because HGH hasn’t been proven [...]