With Giambi's and Bonds' grand jury statements and Canseco's book, steroids will be the cloud that continues to shroud baseball for the near future. I must admit, that I was among those that didn't believe that steroids would make that much of a difference in baseball. After all, a hitter still has to make contact.

It appears that I was wrong.

Even if we were to believe part of what Canseco claims, that 'average players become superstars and superstars become incredible,' attention must be paid.

So that got me thinking about past Cubs hitters who might have used the juice/cream. The list of players begins in 1986, and includes those that played at least one game for the Cubs and only looked at home run output.

DISCLAIMER: Sudden jumps in home runs during a season followed by a steep falloff may be due to a variety of factors. Among them are playing time, injuries, where in the batting order a player hits, which parks they play in, personal life, and who knows what else. More importantly, these numbers only look suspicious because of the sudden jump in home runs followed by a sharp falloff. These are not accusations. Here's the list:

Leon Durham - '87 (27), '88 (4), '89 (4), '90-Out of baseball

Kal Daniels - '90 (27), '91 (17), '92 (11), '93- Out of baseball

Rick Wilkins - '93 (30), '94 (7), '95 (7), '96 (14), '97 (27), '98 (5), '99-'01 - 1

Henry Rodriguez - '95 (2), '96 (36), '97 (26), '98 (31), '99 (26), '00 (20) '01 (0), '02 (0)

Benito Santiago - '96 (30), '97 (13), '98 (0), '99 (7), '00 (8), '01 (6), '02 (16), '03 (11), '04 (6)

Todd Hundley - '97 (30), '98 (3), '99 (4), '00 (24), '01 (12), '02 (16), '03 (2)

Brian McRae - '98 (21), 99 '12), '00 - Out of baseball

GlenAllen Hill - '00 (27), '01 (1)

Mark Bellhorn - '01 (1), '02 (27), '03 (2), '04 (17)