I usually keep the focus of this blog on prep sports but I’m going to stray from that for a minute.
During my lunch break today I read an interesting USA Today article about how pitchers — not hitters — have been creating most of the buzz during the 2010 Major League Baseball season.
Before you watch tonight’s MLB All-Star Game, read the USA Today story. It focuses on some amazing performances from the first half of the season, including Roy Halladay and Dallas Braden’s perfect games, and Armando Galarraga’s would-be perfect game that was botched by a missed call.
How do we explain pitchers’ increased dominance? Is it a result of MLB’s crackdown on the use of performance-enhancing drugs? The writer explores that possibility and a bunch of other possible causes, including the way organizations carefully develop young, talented pitchers.
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