By Robert Ferringo
Over on The Mothership I have written the first of what I hope will be a weekly article entitled MLB Betting By The Numbers. The idea is that baseball, more than any other sport, is a construct of mathematical principles and that winning money betting on baseball is based on understanding these numbers. So each week I’m goign to poke around some of the random, obscure, quirky numbers that present themselves in the baseball betting market and bring them to you with my usual wit and wisdom.
This week’s version has a foundation in a simple premise: without steroids, everyone sucks.
It has been five years since baseball enacted “real” steroid legislation and it has been two years since Manny Ramirez, the first big “star” to be suspended, derailed the Dodgers by getting busted on the juice. Using those two incidents as bench marks we can see that the MLB landscape has completely changed. And, frankly, now no one can score. All of the basic scoring metrics - batting, runs, and home runs - are down dramatically this year compared to previous seasons. Here are the numbers that I used for the research in my story:
2011 Runs Per Game
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