Teddy Higuera just won the Cy Young award as the best pitcher in the American League.\u00a0 Pretty impressive, considering he retired 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
When the Mitchell Report on steroid use in Major League Baseball was released this week, it contained a few surprises.\u00a0 The most noteworthy name on the list of users is Roger Clemens, winner of 7 Cy Young awards stretching back to 1986.\u00a0 Now, with his name tarnished, it\u2019s possible that he (and all the other enhanced performers) will have their records expunged or at least \u201casterisked.\u201d\u00a0 Which means that Teddy Higuera, runner-up to Clemens in 1986, will be due his Cy Young award.\u00a0 Other runner-ups who will move to the top of the charts include Jimmy Key (1987), Scott Erickson (1991), Randy Johnson (1997), Pedro Martinez (1998), Mark Mulder (2001) and Randy Johnson \u2013 again (2004).\u00a0 Congratulations, gentlemen.<\/p>\n
Now, that\u2019s just ONE set of awards for ONE player.\u00a0 Imagine the revisionist history about to unfold!\u00a0 Consider:\u00a0 Frank Thomas just won the 2000 AL MVP, due to the needle marks found in former winner Jason Giambi\u2019s arm.\u00a0 The 1991 AL Rookie of the Year is now Juan Guzman, courtesy of Chuck Knoblauch\u2019s destroyed liver.\u00a0 Andy Van Slyke is 1992\u2019s NL Hitting Champ, as Gary Sheffield is sent to detox.\u00a0 Albert Belle is the AL MVP for 1995, thanks to Mo Vaughn\u2019s syringe.\u00a0 And little-known Pat Hentgen won more games than any other AL pitcher in 1996, thanks to Andy Pettitte being an addict.\u00a0 The list of shame goes on and on and on.<\/p>\n
The best part is, you can play along!\u00a0 Just pull out your record book and start crossing off names.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an easy one to get you started: go to the list labeled \u201cCareer Home Run Leaders\u201d.\u00a0 Cross off the name B-A-R-R-Y B-O-N-D-S.\u00a0 That removes his enormous ego and his chemically-inflated head, and puts Hank Aaron right back where he belongs.<\/p>\n
At the top of the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teddy Higuera just won the Cy Young award as the best pitcher in the American League.\u00a0 Pretty impressive, considering he retired 12 years ago. When the Mitchell Report on steroid use in Major League Baseball was released this week, it contained a few surprises.\u00a0 The most noteworthy name on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[109,112,312,540,1170],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-barry-bonds","tag-baseball","tag-cy-young-award","tag-hank-aaron","tag-steroids"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}