Lenny Dykstra knew it.
After being traded from the Mets to the Phillies in 1989, the lightly-built center fielder knew that if he wanted to be an everyday Major Leaguer, he couldn’t do that at the size he was playing at that summer.
In an exclusive interview with Scott Miller of Bleacher Report, Dykstra talks about his use of steroids in a wide-ranging interview that covered a multitude of topics, including his stint in jail and legal tangles that are all covered in his upcoming biography, “House of Nails,” due out June 28.
When he was dealt to the Phillies on June 18, 1989, along with relief pitcher Roger McDowell in a deal that sent Juan Samuel to New York, Dykstra weighed 160 pounds.