I have always found it frustrating with the dialogue that steroids should be credited with the home run explosion starting in the early-90’s. Yes, steroids did need to be addressed and I am glad that it was, but team expansion also deserves a significant amount of credit to the big home run numbers dating back to the 1960’s. This spring, Major League Baseball announced that they would expand roster size to 26 players starting in the 2020 season. That in and of itself means that in 2020, there will be 30 additional players who would have otherwise been in the minor leagues on big league rosters. Without adding a team, baseball will impact their competition. By adding two expansion teams, an additional 52 players would be on the big stage. This is especially important to the extremes. Great hitters are still going to be great hitters and they are facing pitchers that would have otherwise been in the minors and it stands to reason that home run numbers would jump. Historically
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