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My guess is that when the league jumped out of the deadball era, the expanded number of teams made for creation of a lot of bad pitchers. Before the steroid banter, most of the reasons given for the homer binges leading up to McGwire/Sosa was by expanding the league by teams in the 90's, a lot of lame pitchers ended up in the majors. I still find truth with that along with the addition of Colorado as well as some bandbox type ballparks.
Your league clearly has a lot more slots for pitchers in that time period, the computer probably created a lot of so-so pitchers that have made it to the show, and are paying the price for it.
Jason Taylor, hmmm not a bad football player. My guess in the fantasy world of things, you probably have a lot of players that you can pass up as African American players that were shutout.
In my Baseball History and the Padres, I have fictionial players with the regular players, and some are becoming studs. My rationale for these fictional players is that, the US was a passifist country and did not have a Civil War, or any wars, and that a lot of people that would have been killed in a war, lived and had kids and families.
But to make a long reply short, LOL.. I think dilution of pitching is why the ABL is probably a homer league.
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