That certainly is a heapful of circumstantial evidence, but I'm willing to bet that nearly every World Series championship team has had several players come together for a career year. The 1993 Phillies are certainly one example [of course, there are many rumors about performance enhancing drugs on that squad, but, those players were in no danger of being outed by testing].

There are many other factors that could have been in effect rather than steroid usage on the 2003 Marlins teams, such as helpful weather, one-year park factor aberrations, competition, etc. Also, there is mounting evidence that steroids do not enhance performance, while the evidence that they do continues to...oh wait, there isn't any evidence that says they do enhance performance :)

he shows all these figures from 2004 too and there WAS testing in 2004

or is he just gonna insist that the team that beat his yankees HAD to be drugging and here's 3 of 25 who did well and the ONLY explanation can be drugs.

he gonna say josh beckett on drugs too and that's why he shut out the yanks in game 6???

Lisa - what was the impact of testing positive in 2004? Was there any time for the crime like there is in 2005? What those who tested positive in 2004 named in the public like 2005?

The year 2005 is the key here - in that the drop in production happened when there was testing with disclosure, etc.

speedy leadoff leader, redhot young player cabbera. and a deep rotation also a weak playoffs in 03. sorry to say. yanks limped into the playoffs. the red soxs should have been in the world series that year.

With the exception of Lowell, every 2003 figure listed was surpassed by its 2004 figure. The Marlins finished 3rd in the division last year with an 83-79 record, identical to this year. If the statistics were showing a trend, Florida would have won 100 games last season. Florida simply has had several hitters hitting their prime late 20s-early 30s prime years during the same time period, and young pitching prospects started to deliver. That's how championships are won in baseball. The next season, Rodriguez leaves, Derrek Lee is traded, and Dontrelle Willis hits a sophomore slump. That's it. No big conspiracies here.