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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 17, 2018 19:27:38 GMT
That's going to become an issue soon. Buster Olney has been saying it for a couple weeks. People are saying the spin rates are way, way too much for a pitcher to get without gooping a ball. League wide. They use sunscreen and don't glop it on them like Michael Pineda. And, at this time, it's nearly impossible to detect because sunscreen can get on a baseball naturally (unlike vaseline). And they use it to get a tighter curve, instead of the supernatural backspin that Gaylord Perry achieved,. Some have said that this is the reason strikeouts are up. Hitters cannot hit this filthy stuff. The new manufacturing process for the baseball have made new ones really slick, so umpires got more lenient of pitchers roughing them up. And it too easy to slip some sunscreen onto the ball. And they say baseball might not do anything about it until someone gets col cocked by a doctored ball or if pitchers start throwing flutter balls like Gaylord. |
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