Power Outage

Is it age or is it the lack of steroids that see's Manny Ramirez with 5 home runs to this point and Alex Rodriguez with 8?
I would have to think that while getting older is playing a part in their lower power numbers, I think that a bigger factor is not using performance enhancing drugs.
Also, since everyone is under the umbrella of suspicion who played in the "steroid era" you have to wonder about guys like Todd Helton, who has 1 home run in 187 at bats. Helton, who once hit 49 homers in a single season, has become a slap hitter and a not-so-very good one. He's hitting just .246 with 11 RBI's. By comparison, teammate Clint Barmes, who is hitting .219 has 29 RBI's.
With Helton, I hope it's age, injuries or a massive slump that he'll break out of sooner than later. But who knows.
Ken Griffey Junior retired a couple of weeks ago and many people said, "There's a guy who never used steroids." Really? How do we know? We don't. Again, it'd like to think that he hit his 630 homer clean but I couldn't guarantee that. Could you?
I do know that games are more manageable since drug testing has taken over. I still think that the game would still be rampant with PED's if not for Jose Canseco's book. He doesn't write the book, I think Bud Selig and the players union still have their head in the sand regarding steroids.