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Armed for the future: young pitchers revitalizing game: major league hitters are now meeting their match in a blossoming era of front-line moundsmen.(Cover Story)
A FEW YEARS AGO EARNED run averages were climbing and the sky was falling.
With run-scoring in the majors reaching historic highs in 1999 and 2000, the game was full of Chicken Littles wailing that major league baseball had been ruined by expansion-diluted pitching staffs, that the mound needed to be higher and the strike zone bigger.
A funny thing has happened, however. Pitching made a comeback.
"Pitchers have had some sort of awakening," said A's first baseman Scott Hatteberg. "It seemed for a while it was really diluted. Now there are some really, really good arms out there. There aren't many guys you can count on getting going runs off."
Young, front-of-the-rotation starters once were a rarity. Now they me sprouting like weeds all over the majors. From Halladay to Hudson, Padilla to Prior, Willis to Wood and Zambrano to Zito, baseball is enjoying a renaissance of young pitching talent.
Over the four seasons from 1994 to 1997, pitchers younger than 27 won 14 or more games only 18 times. Last year alone there were 17.
Billy Beane, who often compares baseball to the financial markets, said the shift is a simple matter of supply and demand.
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