On Monday, Major League Baseball levied its stiffest penalty for performance enhancing drug use in history, Twelve players were handed 50 game suspensions and accepted the ban. Then there was Alex Rodriguez, who was handed an unprecedented 211-game suspension and vowed to fight it before making his season debut on Monday against the White Sox. 

Legal analysts have tried to parse through exactly what ramifications the suspensions and A-Rod's appeal will have on the players, the league and on the weighty contracts MLB players hold.