In an interview with the Boston Globe, Mo Vaugh says he didn't know about the juice when he played. He also says it takes a toll when you're a power hitter..so perhaps those 'roids would have helped.....
Vaughn says he was in the dark about steroids.
"The most homers I hit was 44," he says. "I was tired. I had no idea that stuff was going on -- maybe because I didn't need it.
"I was shocked, to be honest with you. I was shocked completely when stuff started coming out. And the numbers started rising. Jose didn't come out for the goodness of the game, though. Jose came out for himself."
Vaughn now works for affordable housing in New York:
Vaughn put up impressive numbers with the Red Sox, but his last season in Boston (1998) was marred when he crashed his truck returning from a strip club in Providence. Although he was found not guilty of drunk driving, he battled with team management and then signed a six-year, $88 million free agent deal with Anaheim.
He injured his ankle falling into a dugout while chasing a pop foul in his first game with the Angels in 1999, and in some ways, that small step launched Vaughn into bigger things.
I wanted to be a Hall of Famer, and it didn't happen," says Vaughn, who finished with 328 homers, 1,064 RBIs, and a .293 batting average. "I got to Anaheim and I fall in the dugout. And I start the downward spiral of my career."
He missed the entire 2001 season with a ruptured tendon in his left arm, and hit just .190 with 3 homers and 15 RBIs in 27 games for the Mets in 2003.
Vaughn says he was "devastated" when doctors told him he risked permanent damage if he continued to play.
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