Awesome PED Essay From a Past MLB Vet

[PoseyBuster]

Gabe Kapler wrote an amazing essay that was uploaded to Baseball Prospectus today. Clear, thought out, and all around entertaining.

Baseball Prospectus | Baseball ProGUESTus: Giving Up the PED Guessing Game

 

[corockies]

That was a great read - thanks for posting the link.

 

[Tom Oates]

Very well written. Good read, thanks for sharing.

 

[vwnut13]

$10 says he used PEDs.

 

[PoseyBuster]

Very well written. Good read, thanks for sharing.

That was a great read - thanks for posting the link.

You're welcome, I also thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[Austin]

$10 says he used PEDs.

 

[vwnut13]

$20 says he used PEDs.

 

[notjomommasclint]

I'd put $100 on it. Dude gained some major mass during the middle of his career.

Which doesn't really matter since I enjoyed watching him play.

 

[RStadlerASU22]

Good read... I was amazed at how frequent Kapler moved around team to team w such short stints everywhere. But it was a nice article.

Ryan

 

[weight333]

Great read. As more and more men become educated about the correlation between their hormone levels and overall health and well being, we may come to better understand the demonized nature PEDs and steroids have received. A man keeping a healthy level of testosterone over his lifespan is a good thing. TRT and anti-aging clinics will continue to gain popularity.

 

[elmalo]

Kapler was a juicer.

 

[cgilmo]

Kapler was a juicer.

I don't believe that.

 

[lisu]

Kapler was a juicer.

I don't believe that either. He was always well built and a gym rat.

 

[PoseyBuster]

Lisu nailed it. It's not just that the guy is massive- he definitely had help from genetics, supplements, and a strenuous gym workout plan. He didn't use PEDs, and that essay further solidifies that claim.

There's a difference between wanting to achieve your fitness goals by putting in the 4 extra hours a day required or the 4 extra seconds to shoot yourself up with PEDs.

 

[MaineMule]

I do believe him, for whatever that is worth. The scenario where he volunteered to take a PED test for HBO sounds legit. Did he actually ever take the test?

 

[PoseyBuster]

I do believe him, for whatever that is worth. The scenario where he volunteered to take a PED test for HBO sounds legit. Did he actually ever take the test?

Im sure he got tested weekly....his body is bigger that most juicers' bodies.

(notice the difference between Kaplar's Ripped muscular body and PED users' "Thick" body)

 

[elmalo]

Im sure he got tested weekly....his body is bigger that most juicers' bodies.

(notice the difference between Kaplar's Ripped muscular body and PED users' "Thick" body)

There are different steroids for different types of bodies. What you take depends on what you want. Winstrol would get him that ripped look.

 

[PoseyBuster]

There are different steroids for different types of bodies. What you take depends on what you want. Winstrol would get him that ripped look.

Yes but is there a guilty or alleged PED User in Baseball that used just Winstrol? I thought that was used as part of a cocktail of steroids. (Vague recall of a hungover Biology class in college)

 

[jbhofmann]

no

 

[elmalo]

Yes but is there a guilty or alleged PED User in Baseball that used just Winstrol? I thought that was used as part of a cocktail of steroids. (Vague recall of a hungover Biology class in college)

No, using just winstrol wouldnt get you the best results, no one uses just one thing. But a majority of the players who have been caught are more cut, they are not bodybuilder type guys.