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Former American League MVP and future MMA hero Jose Canseco began making accusations about performance-enhancing drug use in baseball in the mid-2000s. Through his book “Juiced” and a series of media interviews, Canseco became the most outspoken figure blowing the whistle on rampant steroid use in baseball. To that point, sportswriters and fans had largely looked the other way at the expanded physiques and statistics of the game’s biggest stars.