What's Behind Baseball's Great Pitching?

[Brock Landers]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2007984,00.html

What's more telling is the increasing frequency with which teams are eking out only a couple of hits a game. According to FanGraphs, a baseball-statistics website, teams have registered two hits or fewer in a game on 45 occasions through July 29 this season. That's more than double the number of such games witnessed through July of the 1999 season, when baseball was at the apex of the so-called steroid era and run production was near a 20-year high.

[philswin]

Steroids or well lack of Steroids. They were taken by ptchers also but it looks like they helped the hitters a lot more than the pitchers.

[lunchbawks]

they should move the pitchers mound back 2 feet.

[2daBank]

the fact that hgh is not yet tested for and that is what helps pitchers......pitchers still juiced hitters not = pitching era

[lunchbawks]

you guys think steroids are out of baseball?

there's like 10 000 ways to cheat a drug test

[2daBank]

no certainly dont think they are out of baseball (see tor blue jays) but i think they are on the downswing and superstars are scared to death to even try and cheat......

[Pauulzcappin]

Matt Joyce is on roids.

[jjgold]

Amazing how players cannot hit without steroids anymore

[philswin]

Steroid use is probably down fron 70% to 10% of players

[lyon804]

The think Speed(Greenies) being gone hurts as much if not more than roids.. Just hard to play day in and day out and be at your best. Besides it a tough game.

[gryfyn1]

Some people inside baseball wonder if more shadowy forces are at play. "Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I still believe the ball was juiced in the mid-to-late 1990s

Ah the great unsold story that everyone ignores --

[Brock Landers]

The think Speed(Greenies) being gone hurts as much if not more than roids.. Just hard to play day in and day out and be at your best. Besides it a tough game.

[lunchbawks]

Ah the great unsold story that everyone ignores --

It was proven false, i saw these sports people cutting open HR balls from a decade ago, compared with one today... EXACT!

[gryfyn1]

It was proven false, i saw these sports people cutting open HR balls from a decade ago, compared with one today... EXACT!

The balls all met MLB 'specifications' however accoring to the person they hired to give that report the specifications MLB gives have a variation that can differ by as much as 50 feet.