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Originally Posted by pan6467
Looking at batting averages, runs and home run tallies..... does anyone find it coincidental that all seem to be way way down this year?
The pitching is not that much better yet right now it seems to be dominant.
I think the steroids or lack thereof are starting to truly show.
Hitters age, numbers go down but not this many so fast.
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Only problem with this way of thinking is that it presupposes that it is only the hitters who are (were) juicing. Tons of the PED users were pitchers, so you could say it should have evened out...
I wonder if it has more to do with the recent lack of expansion. After the most recent expansion, I think the pitching got a little more diluted than the hitting and now it may be recovering. Who knows. We could get to the end of the season and the numbers could be the same anyway.