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Steroid testing in baseball has become such a heated issue lately with many reasons why players should take steroids and why players should be tested. Steroids are bad for the player’s health. Anabolic steroids raise the level of testosterone in the body, which causes an increase in muscle mass that can help players train harder and hit and throw with more power. But possible side effects are heart and liver damage, elevated cholesterol levels, strokes, aggressiveness and genitalia dysfunction. Death is even a danger. Baltimore Orioles pitcher, Steve Bechler, who was taking not steroids but rather a supplement, found out the hard way that there is a price to pay to be “competitive. Steve died by overdosing on ephedra. Why then should baseball be concerned with this if it’s a constitutional right to be in control of your own freedoms? Because when one player is paid $252 million dollars to play baseball (a whole baseball team was bought for $250 million dollars) he needs to be healthy and not damage his body by willfully taking steroids. From the constitutional right to do what you want, to the actual number of players taking steroids, and the overall heath