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C.J. Cron kept the Rockies red-hot at Coors Field, as the first baseman’s walk-off single in the 10th inning sent Colorado to a 6-5 win over the Brewers on Friday. It marked the club’s fifth straight victory, a season high, as Jhoulys Chacin recorded his first win with Colorado in seven years after tossing a […]
Gerrit Cole vs. the New York baseball writers is becoming one of MLB’s best rivalries. The Yankees pitcher parried another round of questions from them about sticky substances and spin rates after he beat the Blue Jays in Buffalo on Wednesday. The first challenge came from ESPN’s Marly Rivera, who asked Cole why his spin […]
Mets ace Jacob deGrom is dealing with another health issue. The right-hander left his start Wednesday night vs. the Cubs after three innings because of soreness in his pitching shoulder. DeGrom was starting five days after his previous start was cut short because of elbow tendinitis. DeGrom retired all nine Cubs batters he faced, striking […]
Questioning MLB’s new protocols, powerful baseball agent Scott Boras wants Commissioner Rob Manfred to answer why pitchers no longer can use a foreign substance, even if it’s just rosin and pine tar. “Let the commissioner have a press conference," Boras told USA TODAY Sports, “and let him explain why they ignored the technical applications of […]
Story Highlights MLB's enhanced enforcement begins on June 21. Players will be able to appeal the automatic 10-game suspensions. Umpire crew chief will conduct both regular and cause-related inspections. Major League Baseball is laying down the law on foreign substances. Yet, many questions remain, such as: Who, exactly, is the law? How will it be […]
Time to sound the alarms in the Bronx? The Yankees, according to Yankee fans, are the worst team in baseball at 34-32 and haven’t exactly found their groove in, what’s supposed to be, a championship-bound season in 2021. Expectations in New York, per usual, are World-Series-or-bust. While the team hasn’t navigated heavy injuries, it has […]
Baseball players have known for quite a while that some type of crackdown on the use of sticky substances by pitchers was coming. They just didn’t know what it would look like. What substances would be banned? What types of punishments would be handed out? How would enforcement be handled? MLB released those details on […]
MLB’s crackdown on sticky substances is about to begin. The league released a memo on Tuesday that highlighted the drastic midseason changes it will make to police pitchers who apply foreign substances to the ball. First and foremost, the league is set to enforce two rules that have largely been ignored in recent seasons. The first is Rule 3.01, […]
The next month will be a messy disaster for Major League Baseball, as the crackdown on sticky substances begins in earnest June 21. The official release went out at noon ET on Tuesday, a lengthy missive that explained what MLB sees as the problem — and it is an issue — while largely avoiding responsibility […]
ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball is expected to announce Tuesday it will suspend players caught with any foreign substance for 10 days with pay to help curtail the widespread use of grip enhancers by pitchers around the league, sources […]