If we were to make a list of the things a baseball player could do to ruin their career, the first that would come to most of our minds is take PEDs. Many a promising career, or a Hall of Fame worthy legacy, has been utterly destroyed by the decision to take steroids. Worse still, the decision to do it more than once.
Then, of course, there is the constant discussion of the light suspension punishments players receive when they’re being punished for incidents of domestic violence. These “punishments” are often much, much lighter than those for steroids, and rarely do much to damage the potential Hall of Fame chances for a player, in spite of character and integrity being considered integral to voting (see Ken Rosenthal’s Hall of Fame ballot below).