MLB Statistical Did You Know....

[missouridawg]

Was just looking at some of last years' stats and ran across what I think is a huge indicator of successful PED testing...

Last year, only two major league players hit over 40 homeruns. Can you name the two? They are inserted into this message below in white text (highlight below to see the answers).

<font color="#ffffff">Jose Bautista
Curtis Granderson</font>

 

[Foronce]

I have been storing stats in our roto league the last 4 years ...now i realize this is in't fair of mlb or accurate but in this league offensive numbers have dropped off a ton

it is like 8 team roto with 25 man rosters

2008: runs- 10393 hr - 2541 rbi-10083 steal-1403 avg .281 ops .816 w-695 sv-843 k-9565 hld-382 era 3.7 whip 1.27
2009: runs- 10118 hr- 2597 rbi- 9827 steal- 1500 avg .279 ops .0815 w- 654 sv- 870 k- 9731 hld- 359 era- 3.76 whip-1.28
2010: runs- 9858 hr- 2342 rbi- 9320 steal- 1497 avg .272 ops .787 w- 761 sv- 921 k- 10389 hld- 377 era- 3.47 whip- 1.23
2011: runs- 9685 hr- 2463 rbi- 9476 steal- 1543 avg .270 ops .784 w- 723 sv- 870 k- 10403 hld- 397 era- 3.38 whip- 1.20

I realize the flaws with this sample and your argument, but this league has stayed the same over the 4 year span and you can tell how the off numbers in Runs and RBI have bottomed out while Ks and ERA have went higher and higher... we are seeing less and less power hitters and more combo guys in the outfield also