Because their agreement with the players designates 50, 100, and lifetime suspensions for PED use. What the hell is 162 games based on (other than saving that $25M for the NYY and getting him out of baseball for a year for PR purposes)?

How do you know? Seems like Bosch is the type of guy who would take the greater offer.

I am sure part of the suspension was about him going to great lengths to cover everything up. I bet the Commissioner has wide latitude in regards to that just like Goodell does.

I wish the Chefs would care enough to juice! We don't cheat, we don't tape, and we don't juice, so it's no surprise why we can't compete with players/teams who do.

Which makes the 162 (and the 211 awarded that came before it) a completely arbitrary decision with no precedent.

So was Braun's 65 game suspension

I agree. But that decision was a mutual one.

Mediator - parties agreed to the decision, baseball gets him out for a year right away instead of dragging out the appeal process. A-roid avoids a lifetime ban or the longer suspension, and holds out hope.

Meanwhile he can play outside MLB to stay in shape, show teams what he still has left in the tank, and prays some team will take his brokeass on their 25 man roster.

With his bum hip, other various injuries, and off the juice, he's a prime candidate for being injury prone and declining numbers at the plate. He's already a bit of a liability in the field, and I hope no club even gives him a whiff of interest, so he can fall off the face of the Earth.

ya everybody seems dirty actually

I'm sure Selig would love to blackball him out of the game like Barry Bonds. It will probably be considerably easier to do so because, unlike the 2007 version of Barry, ARod isn't still one of the best hitters in baseball.

They should make it that your first positive test knocks you out for a whole year. A second test and you are out for good.

Baseball is one big pile of shit these days and they need to step it up a notch if they want the sport to ever be looked at as pure again. If it ever was.

Double standard.
Baseball players do steroids they are evil in football it's meh.

I'm not sure football would be quite as good without steroids.

i dont know what the **** you have been watching, but that shit we see on sunday's now is NOT a good product. Its getting worse and worse

Can A-Rod play Free Safety?
If so, sign him up... .