Steroid Era: Ivan Rodriguez

Ivan Rodriguez was one of the players named as a steroid user in Jose Canseco's book Juiced. Canseco claims that he showed Ivan Rodriguez how to use steroids, and purchased steroids and HGH for him.

When a member of the Associated Press recently asked Ivan Rodriguez on whether he was one of the 104 players who failed the steroid test administered in 2003, his response was a puzzling "Only God Knows"

In 2005 after being named in Canseco's book, and MLB's Steroids testing was put into place, Ivan Rodriguez showed up to Spring Training 20 pounds lighter. The weight loss seems to have impacted his power numbers significantly, and he has failed to hit more than 14 HRs since then.