Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 13, 2007
What to Do

Probably the most important part of the report goes from page 302 to 306. They are Mitchell's recommendations for improvement of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. I like his ideas on transparency:

Drug testing programs must respect the privacy rights of the athletes who are tested. Yet to instill public trust and ensure accountability, they must be as transparent as possible consistent with protecting those rights. Transparency can be achieved by such actions as submitting to outside audits, and publishing periodic reports of de-identified aggregate testing results, retaining records of negative test results so that confirmation is available to correctly interpret subsequent tests, which may inure to the benefit of a player charged with a positive result in a later test. A transparent program should provide the public with aggregate data that demonstrates the work of the program and the results achieved by it (but that does not reveal or permit the determination of individual identities).

I'd love to know how testosterone levels of ballplayers compare to the population at large, for example, and how those levels might change from year to year.


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