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In the category of disgraced steroids users, you have Jose Canseco and Rafael Palmeiro.
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Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi fall into this tent.
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Bonds, Clemens and Sosa along with Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro would be automatics based on their numbers.
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The days of elite ball players such as Rafael Palmeiro, Manny Ramirez and even Melky Cabrera failing drug tests are far from over.
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Other suspected or admitted PED users eligible for induction such as Mark McGwire (16.9%) and Rafael Palmeiro (8.8%) were similarly distant from the required 75%.
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Banished from the field for a specified period the way Hall of Fame candidate Rafael Palmeiro was and the way future Hall of Fame candidate Manny Ramirez was.
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He did hit a bunch of homeruns but he didn't have the length of career that McGwire did and Gwynn and Ripken and other deserving players - people on the fringe like even Fred McGriff or Rafael Palmeiro.
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The slugging decades of the 1950s, '60s, '90s and 2000s show that a host of players--Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Harmon Killebrew, Bonds, McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro--come in lower in relative terms than their lifetime home run totals suggest.
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