Of course they discovered Mickey Mantle's corked bat recently, so there's another cheater right there... little doubt in my mind that The Mick would have been on the juice if it had been available to him.
The Neikro brothers were also colossal cheats - those guys tried every trick in the book, and got caught, too. Phil still managed to make the Hall. I also think Rickey Henderson juiced towards the end of his career and still snuck in.
It is all a very grey line. A-Rod is a bozo, no doubt. But even without the juice, he would have been an amazing player as a 6'4" shortstop who could hit. Maybe not as much power, but a longer career. Stats would look more like Jeter's.
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