In the mid-to-late 80s to early 90s speed was the trend. They were trying to turn athletes into baseball players. Guess what...hitting a baseball if hard! So then baseball moved into power mode and the roid era was born to until somebody the media and "keepers of the game" hated basically said "I'll show you!"

The game got "cleaned up" power numbers dipped and boom - a new formula. All the teams left were basically the same. They had starting pitching that was only asked to go 6 innings, and then bullpens that had one guy after another that throws 160 MPH.

Welcome the the live arm era!
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