Editing Jose Canseco (section)

==Performance-enhancing drugs==
In 2005, Canseco admitted to using [[anabolic steroid]]s with Jorge Delgado, Damaso Moreno, and Manuel Collado in a tell-all book, ''[[Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big]]''. Canseco also claimed that up to 85% of major league players took steroids, a figure disputed by many in the game. In the book, Canseco specifically identified former teammates [[Mark McGwire]], [[Rafael Palmeiro]], [[Jason Giambi]], [[Iván Rodríguez]], and [[Juan González (baseball)|Juan González]] as fellow steroid users, and admitted that he injected them.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2005-02-13-canseco-60minutes_x.htm|work=USA Today|date=February 13, 2005|title=Canseco: Steroids made baseball career possible|access-date=May 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104015649/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2005-02-13-canseco-60minutes_x.htm |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |agency=Associated Press |last1=Bodley |first1=Hal |last2=Antonen |first2=Mel }}</ref> Most of the players named in the book initially denied steroid use, though Giambi admitted to steroid use in testimony before a grand jury investigating the [[Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative|BALCO]] case and on January 11, 2010, McGwire admitted publicly to using steroids.

At a Congressional hearing on the subject of steroids in sports, Palmeiro categorically denied using performance-enhancing drugs, while McGwire repeatedly refused to answer questions on his own suspected use, saying he "didn't want to talk about the past". Canseco's book became a [[New York Times bestseller list|''New York Times'' bestseller]]. On August 1, 2005, Palmeiro was suspended for 10 days by Major League Baseball after testing positive for steroids.

On December 13, 2007, Canseco and Jorge Delgado were cited in the [[Mitchell Report (baseball)|Mitchell Report]] (''The Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball)''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mitchell|first=George|url=http://files.mlb.com/mitchrpt.pdf|title=Mitchell Report on Steroid Use in Baseball|date=December 13, 2007|work=[[MLB.com]]|access-date=December 13, 2007}}</ref> On December 20, 2007, Canseco was also named in [[Jason Grimsley]]'s unsealed affidavit as a user of steroids. Canseco and Grimsley were teammates on the 2000 New York Yankees.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/12/20/drugs.grimley.ap/index.html? |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102071049/http://www.cnn.com/2007/SPORT/12/20/drugs.grimley.ap/index.html |archive-date=November 2, 2008 |title=Affidavit: Grimsley named players |date=December 20, 2007 |work=CNN|access-date=December 31, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On December 30, 2007, it was announced that Canseco had reached a deal for his sequel to ''[[Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big|Juiced]]''. The sequel is titled ''[[Vindicated (book)|Vindicated]]'', which hit bookstores by Opening Day 2008. This book has information on [[Alex Rodriguez]] and [[Albert Belle]], as suggested by Canseco. Canseco said the book was a "clarification" of names that should have been mentioned in the [[Mitchell Report (baseball)|Mitchell Report]].

In 2010, Canseco spoke out against PEDs advocating baseball's youth to not try them, and criticized their effectiveness overall:

"These kids don't need steroids to become players...we overemphasize the steroids and not the athletic ability and skills of these people. We're taking away the hard work the athlete puts in and saying he became great just because of steroids. Let me give you a perfect example. I have an identical twin brother, [[Ozzie Canseco|Ozzie]]. He is the closest thing to me genetically. And in my prime, I was a super athlete." "My twin brother used the same chemicals, same workouts, the same nutrition. Why didn't he make it in the big leagues? That is the perfect example that we are giving steroids way too much credit. If steroids are that great, it would have made him a superstar."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=5244705|title=Canseco: Steroids are overrated|last=Fish|first=Mike|date=June 2, 2010|website=ESPN|access-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240507050028/https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=5244705 |archive-date=May 7, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In a 2012 [[Sportsnet]] Interview article, Canseco said one of his only seasons without performance-enhancing drugs was in 1998 with the [[Toronto Blue Jays]] because he was in the process of a divorce and "didn't want to use steroids while handling breakup-induced depression".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsnet.ca/magazine/sportsnet-magazine-jose-canseco-las-vegas/ |title=Magazine: 2 days (In Vegas) with Canseco |last=Rutherford |first=Kristina |date=May 17, 2012 |work=[[Sportsnet]] |access-date=June 8, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803073556/http://www.sportsnet.ca/magazine/sportsnet-magazine-jose-canseco-las-vegas/ |archive-date=August 3, 2016 }}</ref>