The question that everybody in baseball is asking these days is, "Do you believe in Jose Bautista?" It made me think about this a little bit more after I read the article "Do You Believe In Jose Bautista?" by Joe Posnanki. Since the beginning of 2010, Jose Bautista has more then doubled his career home run total and transformed into baseball’s most dangerous slugger. How has this dramatic change come about? Steroids? HGH (Human Growth Hormone)? Or is it purely just a new found desire to be great?
By the time Jose Bautista turned 29 years old, he had been cut or traded six times. By the time he turns 31 he could become the first player in a decade to hit 50 home runs in consecutive seasons. The sad thing about this incredible turn around is that experts around the game of baseball like to point to steroid as the cause of his new found power. In his article about the slugger, Joe Posnanski disagrees with baseball’s experts. I agree with Posnanski because Jose Bautista has been tested numerous times for Steroids and HGH and one hundred percent of the time the result has come out negative. I don’t like people who always look at the negative side of things. Why can’t these doubters just accept the fact that there is finally a player that didn’t cheat to win?
I really enjoyed reading this article on Jose Bautista, not only because he is my favorite baseball player. I also liked how the author made the doubters look like complete fools. The article was a great tribute to one of the best sluggers the game has ever seen.
