The NEXT: Hope?

If Alex Rodriguez took steroids, who's the next hope for home run hitters in baseball?

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Could this guy be the next great hope for clean power hitters?

All signs point to Alex Rodriguez having taken performance-enhancers at point(s) in the past. With the surfacing of that information, the guy most likely to pass Barry Bonds on the all-time HR list just became implicated in the same junk that brought down Mr. HR King himself. We honestly don't think baseball is going to tremendously suffer because of this (if you do, e-mail us and tell us) but fo' serious: who's the next great power-hitting hope, as in a dude that comes along and clubs homers (chicks dig the long ball, after all) and you think to yourself, "This is cool, because he's clean!" Some thoughts: B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria, Ryan Howard, Hanley Ramirez. Yea, we know: all are pretty established guys already. Anyone else you think could be the model going forward for "The Clean Big Bopper?" Let us know.

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