Steroids Roundup

- NYT's excellent interactive graphic showing how players performed before and after being implicated of steroid use.

- Two graphics from a recent working paper titled Learning Unethical Practices from a Co-worker: The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco. The authors found that some players' performances increased significantly after playing with Jose Canseco. A test of 30 comparable players from the same era found that no other player had a similar effect.

- Another recent working paper showing the evolution of career batting profiles since the 1960s. There was steady improvement for older players until 2006, suggesting that players had curtailed their use of performance enhancing drugs in recent years.

- Tyler Cowen points us to an old post on The Wages of Wins on work revealing some unusual age-performance profiles for certain MLBers.

- Sabernomics on the potential financial impact of the Mitchell report. (And an older post on the non-link between HGH use and performance.)

- Art De Vany summarizes recent research on steroid use. The conclusion: steroids help, but not a whole lot.

- Fun with the Mitchell report, via Deadspin:

A search for Barry Bonds in the pages of the Mitchell report has 91 results. Sammy Sosa has 1. BALCO appears 56 times. Bud Selig and Cocksucker has zero results. Circumstantial does not appear. Carolina Panthers results in zero occurrences. David Eckstein is not named. John Kruk and Donuts has zero results. The word Sex appears 3 times. Buttocks appears 5 times. Ass does not appear. Bud Selig appears 52 times. Correction: Ass appears 52 times. Soccer appears once. Bartolo Colon loves cake does not appear. Zorro does not appear.

- The Anti-Mitchell report.

- Stephen Dubner points out that Mark McGwire is likely to get into the Hall of Fame now.

- Russ Roberts at Cafe Hayek defends Roger Clemens.

- But somewhere, Dan Duquette is smiling.