Numbers On Steroids: Rafael Palmeiro

Numbers on Steroids is a look at baseball players during the 90s to see if anything screams out at you."I Never Took Steroids! Period!" That's what Rafael Palmeiro said a few months prior to testing positive for steroids. Yay for lying to America. Let's take a look at his career stats to see where any evident jumps are to see if we can pinpoint the start of his abuse.Averages Say: All of a Sudden the Slugging Percentage Just Plummets. Hmm...At Bats Per Home Run Says: And from Doubles to Home Runs They GoExplaining It AwayLet's say for a second he didn't test positive. First let's take away his 2nd year as the numbers are a little skewed thanks to less at bats. In 3 of 4 years Palmeiro was an excellent hitter. He hit well over .300 in 3 of those years and accumulated 41, 35, 49 doubles in those same seasons while making two all star teams. He was a solid hitter that hadn't quite found his power stroke. Once he found it he kept it til his body could n...