Year of the Pitcher

When evaluating pitchers,cheap sports hats, we often look at their three-true outcomes,Good News Pitching, strikeouts, walks and home runs, since fielders aren’t usually involved in those statistics. Here’s what those categories look like on a per game basis:
Note that with 1.587 runs per home run in 2010, the drop in home runs accounts for nearly all of the fall of in scoring. Pitchers are walking fewer batters and striking out more, so the evidence is that indeed, pitchers are better. On top of that, all reaching base (hits+bb+hbp) are down 0.43, meaning walks account for 77% of the drop in batters reaching base. Given that home runs are down more that difference, non-home run hits are actually up this season.
Statistic
2010
Change from 2009 Runs per game
8.91
-0.26 Home runs per game
1.88
-0.16 Walks per game
6.63
-0.33 Strikeouts per game
13.88
+0.23
With 15 weeks of the season complete,Juicy Sunglasses, scoring in major league baseball is down 0.26 runs per game compared to the finish of 15 weeks last season. This, combined with a spate of no-hitters, has prompted some to name this the Year of the Pitcher. A look at where the runs were lost may help put the onus on one side of the ball or the other.
Josh Johnson leads the majors with a 1.62 ERA. Photo: Icon SMI
The three outcomes that pitchers control, strikeouts, walks and home runs all moved in a direction that favored the pitcher. The one category in which the defense is involved, non home runs hits, moved in favor of the batter. Now, it could be that teams hired better contact hitters with less power, but if that were true, I would expect strikeouts to be down, not up. It certainly looks to me like the pitching is better, so the appellation seems appropriate.