How will the MLB regulate its players from using PED's?

Barry Bonds (Source: mccoveychronicles.com)

The MLB perhaps is the sport where PED's are most prominent, steroids in particular.

In an article written by Scholarship.edu, they talk about how the rules/policy have not done too much. "Of course when most people refer to baseball's "Steroid Era" they mean the period of time from the late 1980's until the mid-2000's, when anabolic steroid use pervaded the sport. Major League Baseball has since cleaned up its act by instituting its Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program, but that hasn't stopped some players from using performance enhancing drugs in violation of federal law and baseball policy."

With my economic policy being Institutions, "rules of the game" so to speak, the rules have clearly been broken many times by these players. For them, it is a way to rack up their home run total which in return would land them bigger contracts. In today's game, we see still see many big time players getting busted. Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees is a great example. He was a stud for the Yanks for over a decade. Just like anything else in life, the players look at their careers and the MLB as a business. They will do anything they can to perform better so they can make more money as a result. "Since Major League Baseball lacks subpoena power, there's only so much they can do to stop tnulti-millionaires who have the desire to gain any advantage they can." - T Quinn in the article by Scholarship.edu.

My prediction is that MLB players will still take the risk of using these drugs to perform at higher levels.

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