Are American League pitchers at a disadvantage when compared to National League pitchers when end of the season stats are finalized?

When comparing league statistics for pitchers for the 2009 season, I see the National League has a combined ERA of 4.19 compared to 4.45 for the American League. Strikeouts are slightly up for National League pitchers, 1139 to 1099 and curiously so are walks at 564 to 542. Those numbers though don't appear to be statistically significant.It's only 24 more walks over a combined 1443 innings, or 1 walk per 60 innings.

Strikeouts are also up only 40 per 1443 innings, or 1 strikeout per 36 innings. Even total runs allowed is just 44 more, which equates to 1 run every 33 innings. Although I always thought there would be a bigger difference in pitching stats between leagues due to the DH and the pitchers having to bat in the National League, it isn't really that much of a difference when looking at the entire scheme of things over the course of the season.

This might have more to do than just the pitchers versus DH issue. We'd have to compare overall strength of lineups and perhaps quality of pitching. Only way to tell would be have the pitchers switch leagues for a year and review that overall stats again.

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