This morning news came from a source that former Houston Astro Jeff Bagwell may have used performance enhancing drugs during his 14 season Major Baseball career.

On the surface, this sounds crazy, considering what a great person Bagwell was when he was mashing homeruns for the Astros, when he was a part of the Killer B's with Craig Biggio.

When you go beyond the surface of Bagwell's nice personality, take a look at the statistics from Bagwell's career from the minors to the majors and see for yourself.

From 1989 to 1990, Bagwell had 710 AB's in the Minors, Bagwell had 6 homeruns over three years.  Bagwell was strictly a contact hitter.  Then his first year with the Astros in 1990 he hits 15 homeruns, off better pitching.

Not really that earth shattering, because stranger things have happened.  But it goes on from there.

The next three years Bagwell's homerun total was 18, 20 and 39.  Again not that earth shattering.  The year he hit 39 homeruns, Bagwell only played in 110 games.  RED FLAG!!!  After those years, Bagwells homerun totals ranged from as low as 21in 1995 to as high as 47 in 2000.  His average also ranged from .266 in 2004 to .315 in 1996.  Just some numbers to take a look at.  The numbers I used can be found here.

I also saw that toward the end of Bagwell's career that he was looked like a better built baseball player, he looked in better shape than most other baseball players I have seen.  Even though he didn't look like a lot of the bulked up homerun hitters like Barry Bonds or Mark McGwire, but neither did Rafael Palmeiro and looked how that situation turned out. 

When this post was made, Bagwell had yet to provide a response to the allegations.

I like Jeff Bagwell as a player, especially in the final years when the Astros were competitive and were winning National League pennants.  But you have to look at the numbers and wonder.

I hope that Bagwell never did these things, but I won't be surprised if he did.