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Originally Posted by ThatSeventiesGuy
Perhaps a better way to put it would be that the 1990s was the "era of rampant use of performance-enhancing substances, by hitters in particular, which led to grossly inflated home run totals". But that's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it?
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That's the commonly accepted premise. Personally, I find such a statement somewhat problematic as it seems to put all the blame for inflated offensive statistics solely on PED usage. There were a lot of other things going on at the same time, such as a spate of new ballparks being opened and the addition of four expansion teams. And that's not counting more hard to quantify things such as changes to strike zones from umpiring, etc.