FANALYTICS: Making peace with PEDs

It has taken more than 10 years, but I think I have finally made my peace with PEDs.

The epiphany occurred shortly after listening to a brief conversation during the BaseballHQ Radio podcast of April 15. Guest Peter Kreutzer articulated his opinion about PEDs as well as I have ever heard it, and host Patrick Davitt added a few notes to bring it all home. In addition, Peter referenced an article written by former major leaguer Ryan Spilborghs which provided more insight from a player's perspective.

Rather than paraphrase, I'm just going to present some select excerpts from the above links. Then I'll tie it all together in the nice package that is sending me off to my happy place.

It started with a reader question posed to Peter at his

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