For hundreds of years, Major League Baseball went without testing for performance-enhancing drugs.  Now, thanks in no small part to that criticism, they’re slowly becoming the most aggressive league in sports when it comes to drug testing.  First, there was its steroids urine testing for players in the minors, which spread to the majors.  Now, it’s blood testing for HGH in the minors, with the hopes that it will also carry over to the major leagues.  Major League Baseball is the first professional American sport to blood test for HGH.

Blood testing has long been regarded as a troublesome spot in American pro sports.  The athletes don’t want it, for obvious reasons.  The leagues do want it, in most cases.  I can guarantee you that, eventually, HGH testing will be done on professional baseball players, if only because Bud Selig has announced as much.

“The implementation of blood testing in the Minor Leagues represents a significant step in the detection of the illegal use of human growth hormone,” said MLB Commissioner Bud Selig.  “The Minor League Program employs state of the art testing procedures and the addition of HGH testing provides an example for all of our drug policies in the future.”  If it makes for cleaner baseball and healthier players, so much the better.

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