You've probably heard about the 50 game suspensions handed down by Major League Baseball in recent days to Melky Cabrera and then Bartolo Colon for using 'performance enhancing drugs,' or PEDs. This news has highlighted another issue that's more awkward for the media to address, however.
"When it comes to steroid busts in baseball, Se Habla Espanol. Latin America has a history of producing baseball stars that is
more than a century old - and a recent history of over-producing steroid
cheaters... Four of the five big-league players ensnared by baseball's PED testing program this season are from Latin America. And a whopping 23 of the 37 suspensions by major league baseball since 2005 have gone to players born in Latin America." You can read more, including some explanations for this trend, in the Miami Herald HERE.
23 of 37 is 62%. Major League Baseball has 32 teams, each with a 40 man roster, a total of 1,280 players. According to statistics on Wikipedia HERE, 207 current players were born in Latin America and the Caribbean. That's 16% of 1,280.
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