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Hi Bill, in your opinion, why are we seeing this dominance of the pitchers the last 3 years? How much, if any, do you think it has to do with testing for performance enhancing drugs in baseball? Thanks. Efrain
Asked by: Efrain
Answered: 6/16/2012
We're not seeing DOMINANCE of pitchers the last three years; the major league ERA last year was barely under 4.00. In 1988 it was 3.71, in 1978 3.67, in 1968 2.98, in 1958 3.86. We're merely drifting back TOWARD historically normal figures. We're not even quite there yet. The banning of PEDs has a lot to do with it, yes.