Ryan Braun and "Confidentiality"

In the wake of the Ryan Braun news yesterday - which, if everything had been done properly, we should never have heard about - I wrote something for Baseball Prospectus looking at how badly the confidentiality of drug tests has been handled since the initial "survey testing" of 2003. In short, the players have always made confidentiality the primary foundation for their support of the program, but Major League Baseball has done little to ensure it.

Give it a read: Major League Baseball's Lack of Confidentiality.