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The first is in the fact that because of the Mitchell Report, and the crack down of the league on performance enhancing drugs, not only are the .340 hitting and 60 homerun seasons diminishing but baseball is a game of numbers and it always has been yet steroids have walked in and completely rearranged that. You can not tell how many players have used steroids at any one point in their careers, you can not begin to realise how many or how few hits, homeruns, stolen bases, and intentional walks have occured because of PED's but you can realise that all Major League Baseball Players are human. They do make mistakes, and unfortunately these mistakes can tarnish the game I and so many others love, and even though the law states one is innocent until proven guilty, in the assumption of who has used steroids and who hasn't you have to broaden the picture...
Secondly pitchers are actaually just getting better, Troy Glaus stated to an ESPN reporter when he came into the league (which was not that long ago) there were just a handful of pitchers throwing over 98 miles an hour, but as recently as the last week, his Atlanta Braves squared off consecutively against five starting pitchers with heat that fast.
So in the last decade, as the steroid era wormed it's way out of the field and into the press, the pitchers that were used to the supped up hitters of the late 90s and early 21st century carried over into this decade, and proving two things, that 2010 is really the year of the pitcher, and that Darwin was perhaps onto something..
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