Whats up with all these low and pathetic .230 and below BAs? For those of you who don't know me, I recently got back into following Americas Sport; Baseball, after following it very closely during the late 80s up to the mid 90s and even played Fantasy Baseball in 93' when we had to phone in our lineups to the commissioner.

One horrible trend I've noticed since starting back up in Fantasy Baseball and watching games last season are the terribly low batting averages. Back in the day if a player was flirting with .200, they were itching for a one way trip to the minors until they got there act together(Unless they were Jack Clark and could hit 30 home runs while hitting .197). This season especially I have noticed way too many star players flirting with .200 and the majority of catchers save a few hitting around .230. I know the seasons young but if memory serves me correct the longer the season goes the harder the more hits it takes to raise a batting average.

Is is the expansion teams since the 80's? Is this the aftermath of a performance enhancement crackdown? I'm at a loss.

For those who don't know me I'm a very easygoing guy. But once in a while I'll notice something that will ERRK me. Hence, What's up with that?!

ESPN mentioned on sportscenter last night about all the low BAs. They didn't do a story on it but someone mentioned about it. They'll probably do a story soon about it on Baseball Tonight.

I wouldn't rule out roids to quickly, an acquaintance of mine through High School, Ted Johnson, former linebacker for Carlsbad H.S., U of Colorado and The New England Patriots had a horrendous time coming off of roids. I always knew he took them in H.S. cuz from 8th grade to 9th he gained 50 pounds of muscle and has developed all of the side affects steroids have. Then our Junior H.S. Gym coach got busted in our junior year for selling roids to Carlsbad H.S. athletes(Troy Glaus also went to Carlsbad High but he was an underclassman and I didn't know him that well but my sister did, so I don't know if Troy juiced but Ted admitted to the press that he(Ted) did). To this day Ted battles his demons(He started abusing methamphetamine and opioid based pain pills) but it's safe to say that Roids ruined his career with the Pats and Belicheck.

There are some cases in which a causual user or player who hadn't been on them that long can rebound faster. You really can only judge roid impact on a player to player basis due to also, the mental aspects, some players play poorly without roids simply because in the back off their mind they believe they can't play good with out them, while other player can rebound from roids in a matter of weeks.

But I totally agree that the low BA epidemic is due to to all of the factors that both Bones and Bob mentioned. You guys pretty much covered the whole spectrum of reasons some of these jobbers can't hit.

I totally remember that! I also remember the Rockies and Marlins expansion draft. The Rockies first pick was Andres Galarraga who was coming off of a disappointing injury plagued year with The Expos but they knew he was young and had a couple of stellar years with the Expos,boy did that pay off. And the Marlins selected late 30s pitcher Charlie Hough. That wasn't quite as a good move as the Rockies. There has been a few resurrecting career players with the Rockies namely Vinnie Castilla who was a sub par player with the Braves but went to The Rockies and put up monster numbers.

Yeah I know Ted, we went to Jr. High and High School together, we aren't close friends but if we run into each other we'll talk. North San Diego is a hot bed for athletic talent. My parents moved to Vista in my Junior year and I went to RBVHS also where I went to school with Dave Roberts, who was also a football player in HS. Carlsbad HS produced Brady Anderson, Ted Johnson and Troy Glaus in my years their. John Lynch went to Torry Pines, Junior Seau went to Oceanside HS ans Eric Chavez went to San Dieguito, all which are in North San Diego County. There are too many to list so I'll end with Shawn White from Encinitas.