Big Papi

How come no one has put David Ortiz and steroids in the same sentence? Let's take a look at his career. He played six injury plagued seasons for the Minnesota Twins. He had 1273 plate appearances and hit 58 home runs. Rather pedestrian numbers. Now let's give the twins a little bit of credit. They do have an eye for talent. They also are very cheap. So they let David Ortiz go. He signed with the Boston Red Sox for 1.2 million dollars. The Twins were paying Doug Meintkjewicz half a million more than that. So it seems to me, that if the Twins saw any future in Ortiz they would have kept him.
Now he's on the Red Sox, and he only signed there to back up Jeremy Giambi. Giambi goes down with an injury and Ortiz fills in. And he did a great job filling in too. He didn't finish out of the top 5 MVP voting the next 5 years. His numbers jumped too. He was averaging a home run every 21 plate appearances for the twins, and with the Red Sox he averaged a home run every 15th appearance. So how do you explain this?
He also didn't get hurt anymore. He played 5 injury free seasons in a row with the red sox.
Then you have the last 2 years when Baseball has tightened up it's policy. He is now hitting a home run every 26th plate appearance.
Now I don't know that he's done steroids. It might be a coincidence. It might be that finally he was healthy, and maybe he's winding down now. But it seems to me like we give the good guys the benefit of the doubt. The red sox have never had anyone in the steroids drama to my knowledge. Maybe they've all been clean. But they got good in the steroid era, and hadn't won in the decades prior to that. I don't have enough evidence to accuse anybody of anything, but it seems to me like a lot of coincidences that happened in beantown.