"Learning unethical practices from a co-worker: The peer effect of Jose Canseco” by Eric Gould and Todd Kaplanhttps://t.co/klxwTnsesF pic.twitter.com/pfTE2GRd46
— Jennifer Doleac (@jenniferdoleac) March 3, 2018
Around 1993-94, a baseball player’s agent told me, “Jose Canseco is the Typhoid Mary of steroids.” He pointed to the extra homers and weird injuries Texas Rangers were having since Canseco arrived from Oakland in mid-1992 (in a trade approved by George W. Bush, by the way).
Funny how all those famous sabermetrician baseball stat geniuses didn’t publish anything about this pattern while it was actually happening in the 1990s … It’s almost like they’d rather not cause a stink and keep open their chances of getting good jobs in the baseball industry.
