After taking a closer look at the data, I decided to look at what TEAMS should be flagged of the 138 players. I choose to look at the data this way because it allowed for a bigger pool to look at results. The results were still pretty shocking! In all, 11 teams had at least 5 players suspended for the use of performance enhancing drugs. Let's take a look at those teams:
Seattle Mariners - 8
Oakland Athletics - 8
New York Mets - 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Chicago Cubs - 7
Atlanta Braves - 7
LA Dodgers - 6
Kansas City Royals - 6
New York Yankees - 5
San Diego Padres - 5
Cincinnati Reds - 5
Right off the bat, some "big market" teams jump out at you; including the Chicago Cubs, New York Mets and the New York Yankees. I didn't find this date to be that surprising. I fully expected at least one team from the NY market to be on this list and while it doesn't make my favorite team perfect in any way, it was nice to see the Boston Red Sox not appear on this list.
Looking at the data this way, also allows you to see some teams generally respected for the scouting they do (Braves, Dodgers, Yankees, Padres, Athletics) are also able to take more chances, because they have generally scouted well over the years.
Another interesting way to look at this data collected is to view the breakdown of those 11 teams listed above between their respective leagues. I have done that below:
American League (4 Teams): 27 total players
National League (7 Teams): 44 total players
At 1st look, it looks as if performance enhancing drugs are more of a widespread problem with the National League Teams, but after averaging the date from above:
American League: average of 6.75 players amongst the 4 teams
National League: average of 6.28 players amongst the 7 teams
And now just for fun:
The New York Yankees and New York Mets combined to account for 16.9 % of the 71 players used in this data.
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