![]() ![]() “Once we agree upon it as players and whatnot, I’m excited to see what happens.”įive pitchers have been suspended for 10 games each since MLB began its crackdown on banned grip substances in June 2021 by instituting regular inspections by umpires. “We’ve seen that it’s had success in Japan with consistent balls,” he said. Tampa Bay pitcher Shane McClanahan prefers a pre-tacked ball, such as Nippon Professional Baseball uses. Like when you’re pitching in Minnesota when it’s 30 degrees outside for the first month of the season, the balls are going to be hard, cold and dry, rather than when you’re pitching in Cincinnati in the middle of the summer it’s sticky and humid.” ![]() “The only issue guys are having now is that whatever park you go to, every stadium is different,” Minnesota All-Star pitcher Sonny Gray said. Humidors have been used for storage by all teams since 2022. So not only do we have the science that we’re continuing to work on but we’re going to have to get over that sort of policy issue of: Is a pure white baseball a good thing?”.Ī minimum 13 dozen baseballs are prepared for each game. I think if you take hitters and pitchers out front here and ask ‘em what they think of a pure white baseball, you’re going to find out that it’s a pretty controversial topic. “The baseball, if we get there with the Dow people, would be a pearl, right? A pure white baseball. “Like everything in baseball, when you inch towards a solution, you figure out another problem,” Manfred said. MLB executive vice president Morgan Sword said the balls were tested in the first half of this season in the Double-A Southern League. It would come out of a sealed foil pouch at the ballpark. “It would literally eliminate all - well, not all - but many of the variables in the current process. “We continue to work with the people at Dow Chemical on developing a tacky ball,” Commissioner Ron Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday. SEATTLE (AP) - Pristine white baseballs that would not require rubbing are under consideration by Major League Baseball as a way to solve the issue of pitchers using sticky substances for better grip. ![]()
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