Eric Walker is more famous for his handiwork of filling the San Francisco airwaves using his theories about baseball. He voiced his views on the undervaluation of on-base percentage, misunderstandings around fielding and power.

Sandy Anderson had hired Walker as a team consultant where he had devised the Oakland philosophy, called Moneyball. Walker has not been involved in baseball for 10 years after that; however the recent hullabaloo over the steroid affair had made him conduct his own research.

This is where he reached a conclusion; that it was wrong that slugging across baseball had increased during the ‘steroid era’. He stated that if there was an increase in power of baseball players because of steroids, it would have shown in statistics. However there is no such boost shown at all.

He said that it was not enough to consider the rise in home runs per game and overall runs per game to consider the user of performance enhancing drugs. It was the Power Factor, or the total bases per hit that had to be taken into consideration.