Whenever there is a baseball performance-enhancing drug user revelation, you can count on some quotes from Jose Canseco. Last time around, he staged an embarrassing press conference. But this time after David Ortiz was named yesterday? He’s back with the only reason we ever give him an ounce of respect, he gives us names. We love the names. Feed off the names. We don’t care what they took. We just want the names, and we want them now. Speaking to Pedro Gomez yesterday, Canseco said this:

“When you tell me something I didn’t already know, I’ll be surprised,” Canseco told ESPN. “And I’ll tell you this, Major League Baseball is going to have a big, big problem on their hands when they find out they have a Hall of Famer who’s used.”

When asked to name who that Hall of Fame player is, Canseco refused to divulge who he believes it is.

OK, so that’s not a name. But, there’s no denying he’s been incredibly truthful when it comes to MLB and PEDs. As much as people want to dismiss this rogue character, he’s been right so much, you have to take his word about this subject and believe. He’s given us no reason not to, really.

So, in that vain, Andrew over on our Sox blog — which I’m hoping one to seven of you read — listed out the HOF players Canseco has had as a teammate. Now, point to make before I get any further: neither he nor I are saying any of these guys took anything. We have zero evidence. There is no reason to believe any of these guys injected or swallowed something to enhance their performance on the field. Let me repeat: I am not insinuating any one of these fellas juiced.

That being said, and knowing Canseco’s track record on this stuff, onwards to the players via Baseball-Reference:

• Nolan Ryan (Texas, 1992 - 1993)
• Rickey Henderson (Oakland, 1989 - 1992)
• Wade Boggs (Tampa Bay, 1999)
• Reggie Jackson (Oakland, 1987)
• Don Sutton (Oakland, 1985)
• Rich Gossage (Oakland, 1992)
• Dennis Eckersley (Oakland, 1987 - 1992)

Now, as we know, most of the names Canseco has divulged have been former teammates. But there have been others — Alex Rodriguez, for example — he never had as a teammate.

First person to correctly guess in the comments gets a free pair of Keds. (Kidding!)