How Would Major League Baseball History Be Different If Steroid Users Forfeited Their MVP Titles?
There was an interesting article on ESPN.com today. The article decided to take away every MVP trophy won by an accused steroid user and instead give that MVP to the player with the most votes that has so far never been accused of steroids. I want to take it a step further though and take a look at how different history would be if that did occur. If the Major League Baseball MVPs were given to the “rightful winner” then who would we look at completely differently? First let’s note which Major League Baseball players have been accused of steroids by at least one source and also won a MVP, and also who that MVP would fall to if we eliminated them. Old Major League Baseball MVP Winners 1988 AL MVP Jose Canseco 1996 AL MVP Juan Gonzalez 1996 NL MVP Ken Caminiti 1998 AL MVP Juan Gonzalez 1998 NL MVP Sammy Sosa 1999 AL MVP Ivan Rodriguez 2000 AL MVP Jason Giambi 2001 NL MVP Barry Bonds 2002 AL MVP Miguel Tejada 2002 NL MVP Barry Bonds 2003 AL MVP Alex Rodriguez 2003 NL MVP Barry Bonds 2004
