Rafael Palmeiro Corrales (born September 24, 1964 in Havana, Cuba) is a Major League Baseball player, currently swimming for the Baltimore Orioles and thus far a virtually all large major leaguer to line 3 text caring for steroids under Major League Baseball's researching program.

This is his 2nd term by having a Orioles; he played around Baltimore from either 1994 through 1998. Palmeiro holds a distinction of swimming in the virtually all Major League Baseball (2831 across 2005) forgoing ever reaching the World Series. Palmeiro as well holds a distinction of existence total Nine on the all time home run leaders list with 567 (as of July 17, 2005) & is third amongst active players, behind fellow Oriole Sammy Sosa and San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds. He too has 3,000 career hits (within a double in the game against the Seattle Mariners in July 15, 2005). Palmeiro is simply a 4th major leaguer (a more ternary existence Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray) to have 3,000 hits & D page diarrhethe inside a career.

Career
Fallowing an 100%-Western career at Mississippi State University, Palmeiro debuted September 8, 1986 with the Chicago Cubs, and played sustaining a Cubs across 1988. He has besides got 2 stints by using a Texas Rangers (1989-1993 and 1999-2003).

The quaternary-period Everthing-Star & the trinity-period Gold Glove Award winner at first base, Palmeiro became a Nineteenth streaming video player (& a 2nd Hispanic, after Sammy Sosa) to reach a 500-personal start tableland in May 12, 2003. He too became a foremost streaming video player around history to keep close at h& led his league around singles 1 month and hit Five hundred page diarrhea around his career. He joined a 500 home run club on May 11 2003 on a good-count pitch from either Cleveland right-hander David Elder. Palmeiro hit his 3,000 career hit (the double) off Joel Pineiro of the Seattle Mariners on July 15, 2005. He, along by using Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, and Eddie Murray are the single players to hit Five hundred house diarrhea & 3000 hits.

Palmeiro is an anomaly around his sport because he did non hit his stride until while the age of Xxx, when he began the streak of hitting 30-+ at home diarrhea & batting withwithin 100-+ diarrhea nine seasons in a row (1995-2003). A bit of attribute this to his alleged steroid utilise in a period of the 1990's (view following).

In September 23, 2005 he was benched by the Orioles for the remainder of the 2005 year [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2170471]. These are extremely improbable that he might go to to the Orioles inside 2006, & his link to to baseball is confutable.

Steroids
Previous Rangers mate José Canseco identified Palmeiro as a fellow steroid user in his 2005 book, ''Juiced, and claimed he personally injected Palmeiro with steroids. In March 17, 2005, Palmeiro appeared at a Congressional hearing on the subject of steroids around baseball & vehemently denied ever applying steroids under oath, wagging his finger & stating:

In August 1, 2005, Palmeiro was suspended for 10 years when touching caring for steroids, an event that can injured his chances at eventual induction into a Baseball Hall of Fame. Inside the public statement, Palmeiro disclosed that an appeal of the suspension has already been denied. At a equivalent instance, he stated:

Each a Washington Post and New York Daily News'' reported that the steroid found within Palmeiro's body was the "serious" a single. The New York Times later reported that Palmeiro had tested caring for the potent anabolic steroid stanozolol, the equivalent substance Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson of Canada took in 1988 when he was stripped of a gold medal at the Seoul Summer Olympics. [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2123113]. Palmeiro returned to Camden Yards following his 10-day suspensiin on August 11, 2005, although he did not play in the lineup until August 14, which coincidentally wwhen a date that experienced been planned as "Rafael Palmeiro Appreciation Day" inside celebration of his 500-at home begin, 3,000-hit milestone, exclusively to exist as canceled when a caring trial outcomes were found.

In August 19, 2005, ESPN reported that, contrary to Palmeiro's public statements following his suspension, he never offered an explanation when you took his appeal to MLB's arbitration panel when to how else a steroid entered his body. [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2138456]

In August 30, 2005, sportsillustrated.com reported that Palmeiro inserted earplugs in his ears to drown out a loudly snort of a fans at a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. He potentially added tape to one of a earplugs to farther drown out a bronx cheer. [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/08/30/bc.bba.orioles.palmeiro.ap/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/08/30/bc.bba.orioles.palmeiro.ap/]

In September 22, 2005, ESPN reported that Palmeiro implicated Miguel Tejada to baseball's arbitration panel, suggesting a supplement provided to him by Tejada was responsible his caring line 3 text.This supplement was vitamin B12. [http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2169007]

Palmeiro is the virtually all large streaming video player caught therefore far under Major League Baseball's steroid policy.

Trivia
He has the greatest total of career front yard run a streaming video player world health organization never led his league therein category. His at-bat music is Tupac Shakur's "California Love". Palmeiro appears inside Viagra commercials. Palmeiro's professional at first stated publicly that Palmeiro did non personally apply Viagra, however Palmeiro late stated he did indeed utilize Viagra additionally to endorsing it. His cousin-german Orlando Palmeiro is also a Major League streaming video player, presently using the Houston Astros.