As Alex Rodriguez chases #600, die-hard fans wonder how legitimate those records are.
The all time home run list is now filled with players accused of using performance enhancing drugs.
Well effectively immediately, minor league baseball will test for the banned human growth hormone substance.
Action Sports reporter Gabe Osterhout spoke to some of the Binghamton Mets about the new policy, and if they think it will help to clean up the game even more.
Players give their sweat and blood on the playing fields.
But now, they may have to give blood after the game as well.
Major League baseball announced a new testing program for the minor leagues.
Aimed to find people illegally using human growth hormone.
"I'm not really familiar with the process that they're using to go about it. I'd have to do a little more research, read a little more on it but I think anytime you can get more drugs out of the game...I think it's a good thing," says B-Mets infielder Nick Evans.
Players would be required to submit a blood sample for testing after a game.
For the time being, only players with minor league contracts will be tested.
They are not members of the Major League Baseball players' association, which is against blood testing.
"It's great they're trying to clean up the game. I think it's something that should be done but I think taking the blood is going to make guys a little nervous but it needs to be done. The game needs to be clean and it makes it a level playing field," says B-Mets catcher Mike Nickeas.
Manager Tim Teufel is all for the testing.
He doesn't think it will have any impact on his players, or his team.
"I think it's a relatively quick process. I read through it and I don't think it's going to be too cumbersome so you know, for the games sake, you want everybody on a level playing field, I think things like this need to happen," says Teufel.
Players say health should be the most important consideration for testing.
They say, the game should be larger than any substance.
In Binghamton, Gabe Osterhout, WBNG-TV Action News.
The minor leagues becomes the first professional league in the United States to test for hgh.
The blood samples will be taken from a player's non-dominant arm and tested in a lab in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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