There are more than a million reasons why major-league baseball players use illegal substances to enhance their skill.
The players have answered the question whether taking illegal performance enhancing drugs is worth being a multi-millionaire.
The risk has been worth $450 million for admitted PED user Alex Rodriguez, who has earned the most money in major-league history.
New York Yankee Rodriguez, 38, is owed $86 million due over the next four years.
The latest PED criminal, Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers, is owed $122 million through 2020, with a $15 million mutual option for 2021.
Major league baseball is prepared to suspend another 20 players in the near future due to a scandal involving performance-enhancing drugs.
The latest PED criminals were allegedly supplied with performance-enhancing substances by Biogenesis, which advised them on how to avoid detection during drug tests.
The 50-game and 100-game suspensions major-league baseball is handing out for using illegal substances is an absolute joke.
None of these players are worried about a suspension as long as they keep their guaranteed million-dollar payoffs.
All-time home-run champion Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa built Hall of Fame careers. But all of them have been either tied to suspicion of using illegal drugs, or have admitted they used performance enhancing drugs.   
If players and management want to stop performance enhancing drugs in the sport, they simply need to tie the guaranteed value of contracts to successfully passing drug tests.
Every player who wants a level playing field would agree to those terms.
If you pass your tests, you are guaranteed your money.
If you fail a drug test, you forfeit the value on the remainder of your contract.
Until they reach that simple conclusion, major league baseball will continue to be a haven for multi millionaires who use drugs to enhance their skill.