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Assured by in-person meetings between union executive director Donald Fehr and all of Major League Baseball?s teams that players strongly support steroid testing, the MLB Players Association yesterday made an offer to management on random steroid testing. Under the union?s plan, random testing will be used to determine the size of baseball?s steroid problem, with two years of random unannounced testing following if more than five percent of players tested are found to be using steroids, and continuing until steroid use drops. While the union does not want to test for or prohibit players from using legal performance enhancers available to the public, its plan does provide for disciplinary measures and testing for cause, and could lead to an agreement on the issue according to management?s chief lawyer.