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Every player ever to hit over 61 home runs has clearly been established as a steroid user and no player has approached that total since the steroid ban has been clearly enforced. Coincidence?
There are numerous studies, however, that indicate that hitting HRs are more about fast-twitch muscle fiber, anyway. Since genetic predisposition tends to determine the fast-/slow-twitch ratio, those whose bodies are predisposed to higher fast-twitch percentages would likely gain the most from steroid use, since the increase in muscle mass would decrease catastrophic tears, while allowing the players to still direct their swings at the same speed.
Steroids won't make someone without the ability to generate bat speed magically able to do so, however, it will allow someone who is capable of generating bat speed to increase their momentum imparted onto the ball. So, while the cream and the clear wouldn't have turned Derek Jeter into the next HR king, they would have allowed players with lollipop (fastball in the center of the zone) HR power to drive balls that would otherwise turn into popups, fouls, or hard grounders.
As much as I like Bonds, I know that he would never have been able to be the HR king without some sort of medical help, be that through surgical procedure or some type of chemical support. Mostly, I find it sad that someone who could have done something no one else would dream of (600 HR and 600 SB over a career) ended up being the pariah of the sport, thanks to MLB's "chicks dig the long ball" campaign glorifying all things HR, while ignoring the fact that the new power surge was clearly the result of PEDs.
And, yes, power pitchers used PEDs, too. The difference is that a pitcher using PEDs might increase flight path velocity of the ball, but it wouldn't be likely to increase rotational velocity imparted by the pitcher by a significant amount, unless the pitcher trained for a while on perfecting the wrist motion. As a result, pitch velocity increased, but location of those pitches were still in a part of the zone where batters could get to them.
An era dominated by power would see upticks in HRs and broken bats, coupled with overall lower BABiP numbers. The reason is that pitches that are contacted will be imparting more force on the bat, and the batter will have fractionally less reaction time to catch up to the pitch. However, those times when the bat is able to overcome the baseball's momentum, the bat's momentum would impart such strong force on the ball that it would have a greater chance of being hit hard.
The uptick in pitching injuries and overall pitching ability probably has two sources:
1) More training. Pitching year-round means prep pitchers have more experience today than in any recent era. It also means that they have more wear on their arms by the time they reach college and the pros.
2) PED use among prep pitchers. If we assume prep pitchers use PEDs to support their muscle structure due to the longer schedule in high school, it would stand to reason that once they hit the pros (where PED use is heavily scrutinized), they would no longer have PEDs to support regrowth of torn fibers, thereby increasing their chances of injury.
If MLB cared about the future of the game (meaning kids playing baseball), they would give high schools the resources necessary to implement stringent PED testing protocol during the amateur period of these students' (and future athletes') careers. Unfortunately, MLB won't do that, either for fear of violating the terms of their anti-trust exemption, or simply not wanting to take on that additional expense.
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