First guy I remember hitting the sauce was Brian Downing, who wasn't HOF with or without it. But his power numbers skyrocketed. The juice wouldn't make you a great hitter, you have to have the skill set and hand/eye coordination for it to matter. But juice can turn warning track power into home runs. And guys that could already hit home runs started hitting balls into the next county. Someone mentioned upthread that Sosa and McGwire saved baseball which is absolutely true. And the owners and the media did absolutely nothing but encourage others. The contracts getting handed out incentiveized guys to follow suit to the point that MLB was chock full of steroid users. If you didn't you may lose your job to a guy who did. When a reporter found Andro in McGwires locker, that stuff was O'Douls compared to the Everclear he was using in private. Pitchers were doing it too, as velo could increase but more importantly recovery was helped greatly.