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Originally Posted by bnorth
So to have a long career as a power pitcher means you took PED's. Ok sounds good. Then Nolan Ryan must have done more PED's than Lance Armstrong. He led the league on strikeouts at the ages of 40, 41, 42, and 43.
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Interesting point come to think of it, although probably not where you were intending to point. That represents an improvement of 62 strikeouts per year over his age 36, 37, 38, and 39 seasons, starting in 1987. Otherwise he hadn't led the league in strikeouts since he was 32 and facing DHs instead of pitchers. Then at the age of 42 he threw over 300 strikeouts for the first time since age 30. Specifically, his strikeout total was
2.35 standard deviations better than his numbers in the intervening years. That's just ludicrous.
But of course, you'd expect violent outbursts in someone who was using steroids to the extent required to achieve such an improvement in middle-age.
And anyway, these fine gentlemen can testify that the clubhouse in Arlington was clean as a whistle.
I'm not saying he was on the juice, but with the standard of evidence we're applying to all the other guys who have been condemned in this thread, the case against Nolan Ryan is vastly greater than it is against Pedro.