Please tell me the Dead-Ball Era isn't a fluke here

I wrote this headline while getting drunk at 11am off of strong Rum and Cokes at my favorite Harrisburg restaraunt, Zia's. Matt Garza threw a one-walk no hitter. Matt Garza threw to 27 batters and 27 batters only (said one walk was erased on a double play). Matt Garza threw the 6th no hitter* of the year and was one walk shy of the 4th perfect game of the season*

*Please note, these numbers and this article will be recognizing Armando Gallaraga's perfect game that was robbed from him. the record books may never actually add it, but i promise you i ALWAYS will*

How is it that hitters have been so flappable this year? i haven't seen grown men stammer and stutter so bad since Leo McGarry's debate prep. At first this year they blamed the weather saying once the temperatures rose, so would the batting numbers. But then came May. The pitchers are still dominating the game. You can think of # pitchers off the top of your head that you know could be a cy young candidate (Cliff Lee, CC, Halladay, Jimenez, Johnson, Insert Cardnial Here, Linceculm) but can you tell me who will the real consistent hitters are this year?

jose Bautista (30 HR) Joey Votto (25 HR, 70 R, 68 RBI's, .318 BA), and Miguel Cabrerra ( 24 HR, 88 RBI). would you have guessed ay of them? no, you probably thought Pujols, A-roid, and Prince Fielder. i don't blame you but hey, lets be honest, its not the year of the hitter. BAs are down, RBIs and HRs at teh all star break are lower than they have been since pre steroid era...

... which brings me to the next point: you can't blame it all on the Steroirds. power numbers being down? ok, i'll but steroids playing a part, but you can't tell me that battign average was really helped that much by steroids. sure, it may be a factor because less balls are caught on teh warning track, but that doesn't account for enough, liners are down, situational hits are down, strike out counts are up. this has nothing to do with steroids.

Allow me to throw out my theory. it begins with the idea that the newest crop of young pitchers are a great corps of great arms. i can understand that, strasburg, johnson, jimenez... they're awesome, they're young. but why? my theory is that there is a bell curve in emphasis on each game./ i noticed it when the NFL was switching between power and speed backs. at first you wanted a powerback, a bulldozer to break down the opposing front seven. So what happened next? better defensive players came around, bigger stronger, meaner, they gobbled up the backs and the powerback was put on the shelf. enter the shifty speedy back, he came in and outran outmoved and out hustled the ogre defenders, so defenders had to become leaner, smarter, and more well rounded. this has had several curves over the history of the NFL

The same has happened in baseball. for years the league was dominated by hard hitting enigmatic hitters. now we have slick throwing smart pitchers.

I hope this sin't a fluke, i hope the dead ball year stretches into a dead ball era. i like defensive baseball... don't judge me