Rumor: Mike Morse strongly opposes being a DH

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Rumor: Mike Morse strongly opposes beign a DH

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Rumor: Yankees would be interested if Sorianos
price tag drops low enough

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Show #209: Questions Remain for Braves in Left
and Third

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The BP hat. The crazy Bourn talk. A platoon at 3rd and Left? And the potential money at the trade deadline.[...]

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Alex Rodriguezs hip surgery set for Jan. 16

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Hank Aaron 2012 Topps Prime 9 Prime 9 Moments

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Hank Aaron 2012 Topps ‘Prime 9′ – ‘Prime 9 Moments’ I watch a lot of the ‘Prime 9′ shows on the MLB Network. And I am digging these cards issued by Topps in 2012 that share the same theme. I cannot tell … Continue reading →

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Bill Deanes 2013 Hall of Fame election forecast

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Editor’s note: Please welcome Bill Deane, former senior research associate at the Hall of Fame and a longtime friend of the site. For more than 30 years, Bill has made a science of studying past voting results for Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers Association of America and predicting who will get in. He does this [...]

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Projecting Possible Breakout Seasons For 2013
Rookie Position Players

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Note: this is a guest post by Hannah Miller from FanDuel.comIn 2012, Mike Trout and Bryce Harper proved that you do not need MLB experience to become key cogs in an offense. Harper turned in one of the best seasons ever for a teenager, while Trout turned[...]

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PEDs, Responsibility, and Context

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In college, for my senior thesis, I wrote a philosophical paper titled "What Would You Have Done: the Role of Empathy in Assessments of Responsibility". As you can likely deduce, I argued that before we make a judgment about someone's moral responsibility for an act, we should try to empathize with the person. In doing so, we acquire more information about their mental state and the context in which performed the action, which can only improve the accuracy of our assessment.

Craig Calcaterra of Hardball Talk made a similar point about players who took performance enhancing drugs:

If you take seriously the ethical and moral choices players made, you have to appreciate the context in which those choices were made. Yes, some players probably sat back and said "hell, I wanna hit more homers." But many more likely felt the pressure to take steroids to save their jobs or solidify their careers with the full knowledge that their clubs would reward the performers and punish the non-performers, with no questions asked about the provenance of that performance whatsoever.

If I understand him correctly, Craig is not trying to absolve these players of their responsibility. Even for those players who felt strong pressure from their ballclubs to take or continue to take steroids, we may still examine their situations and conclude that they are responsible.

But, Craig argues, we cannot simply ignore the "context in which these choices were made." As with any moral judgment, the action itself is not sufficient to make a moral judgment. Not only must we consider the context of the action, but the mental state of the person who committed it.

Do I blame Bonds, McGwire, and the like for taking steroids? Yeah, probably. I do believe that they had a choice, and I believe they made the wrong choice (ethically). However, to simplify the choice to "Should I take steroids or not?" without considering the factors that led to, and influenced, that decision, is rash and unhelpful. There is no correct answer here (well, maybe there is, but we don't know it), and one is perfectly justified in blaming or absolving these players. However, as Craig argues, we must do so with a careful examination of all the factors involved.

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