Daily Graphing – Matt Lawton

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November 3, 2005

Matt Lawton tested positive for steroids today and will serve a 10 game suspension since it's his first offense. Let's see if the steroids worked.

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The first thing that comes to mind with steroid users is power. Over the course of his 10 year career Matt Lawton has shown very average power. There's not a thing here that makes me want to yell steroids user. Perhaps if we look at his rolling game by game Isolated Power (ISO) we'll get see some substantial power spikes.

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Nope, nothing really eye popping here. He showed some power towards the middle of the season this year, but I was hoping for something more visible, like Brady Anderson's out of the blue 50 home run season.

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I think Matt Lawton used some defective steroids. He's been pretty consistent through out his major and minor league career so I doubt he's been a long term user. If he was tricked into taking steroids (like all steroid using baseball players are), then it's quite possible it was only for a short amount of time and had no major impact on his stats. Unlike the Rafael Palmeiro suspension, this story has no legs.





 

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