According to a study by Tufts University physicist Roger Tobin, usage of steroids by a baseball slugger offers a distinctive ability to boost home run production by as much as 50 percent. Steroids’ usage may, however, produce only modest enhancements in muscle mass and bat-and-ball speed.

Tobin, who is presently working in the capacity of a specialist in condensed matter physics with a long-time interest in the physics of baseball, remarked that the explosion in home run coincides with the “Steroids Era” in sports. The study was supported by the facts that while Babe Ruth’s record of 60 home runs in a single season stood for 34 years, players hit more than 60 home runs in a season six times during the period 1998-2006. The fact that there was a drop in the home run surge quickly to historic levels after initiation of drug testing by Major League Baseball also strengthened the claims laid down in Tobin’s findings.

From Bio-Medicine.Org:

According to Tobin, the explosion in home runs coincides with the dawn of the “steroid era” in sports in the mid-1990s, and that surge quickly dropped to historic levels in 2003, when Major League Baseball instituted steroid testing.

While the increase in home runs has been clouded by suspected use of performance-enhancing steroids, many have wondered why home-running hitting would be particularly vulnerable to performance enhancement. They have also asked if it is even physically and physiologically plausible that steroids could produce effects of the magnitude observed. The answer to both questions, says Tobin, is “yes.”

The study has provided definitive answer to the questions surrounding home runs clouded by suspected use of performance-enhancing steroids in the recent times as it was found that the increase in home runs is attributed to a change of only a few percent in the average speed of the batted ball. The change, as much as 50 percent, can reasonably be expected from the usage of steroids by baseball sluggers.

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