It seems that over the years Major League Baseball has seen a huge increase in the amount of Home Runs hit per year.

 Also apparent is the amount of players that have increased their individual home run production, with multiple players hitting upwards of 40 plus homers.

 Since the start of the 1990’s, Major League Baseball began doing testing to see if the players hitting these many home runs were being aided in some way. It is evident that since the start of that decade, and carried through up until the players in today’s game, some sort of performance enhancing drug is being used.

 The numbers explain it perfectly, the increase in 40 plus home run hitters is abundant. I spoke with a major sports fan (Alex Paduch) on campus, to get his opinion on the data. “From what is being shown in the chart, the game has definitely changed over the years, and it is very clear that steroids are the main reason.”

 To make sense of how steroids and the game in general has changed, you should be given a little more information on what exactly the chart is saying. The “Dead Ball Era”, is the time in which the game was the most basic, and had absolutely no 40 plus home run hitters.

 The game was simple, they never replaced the ball until it was completely unraveled, and this made it near impossible to hit the ball over the fence because it simply wouldn’t carry. During the Second World War, most of the MLB players were subject to the service draft, and were forced to leave the game for the time being.

 This made MLB have to employ players of less caliber, and thusly the amount of home runs hit decreased due to less skilled players.

 What is surprising is the amount of 40 plus home run hitters in the “Pitchers Era” in comparison to the “Clean Era”. The pitchers era was exactly what it sounds like, the time in Major League Baseball where pitchers have had the most success, and hitters struggled the most.

 As compared to supposedly the last clean era in baseball where both the hitters and pitchers were even in statistics, and neither enjoyed more success than the other.

 Finally the “Steroid Era”, an era which is still going on despite all of the testing and the amount of long length suspensions being handed out for those testing positive for performance enhancing drugs. So far it has lasted 23 years, and even seen players hit over 60 home runs in a single season, and even Barry Bonds hit 73 in one single season.

 It is clear by the chart which is still incomplete that Steroids that has had an impact on the game of baseball. There isn't any way to show the amount of steroids taken each era, and place that into the graphic, however I did a little extra research, and it shows that since the 2005 MLB season, a total of 53 players have been caught using, and suspended a number of games for the use of steroids.