Friday, June 18, 2021

Former Mets Pitcher Jerry Blevins weighs in on Sunscreen and Rosin.


Jerry Blevins wrote an article for the NY Post about how MLB's baseball is slippery and how pitchers had to find ways to "fix" it. It doesn't sound like a lot of Major League Pitchers don't consider this cheating but part of the "gig". It is an interesting read.

 From the NY Post.

 Of those 8,000+ pitches, I had sunscreen and rosin on my forearm for 95% of them. Is it cheating? Technically, yes, it’s against the rules. Did it give me an advantage over the hitter? No.

 

Why would I use it then? The answer is simple: The MLB baseball is slippery. Dangerously so.I struggled. Then I asked my teammates if they had a tough time gripping the baseball, too.I struggled. Then I asked my teammates if they had a tough time gripping the baseball, too. “Oh, yeah,” they said, chuckling. “The big league baseball is trash.”

 

“What do you do about it?” I asked.Enter the gray area.

Read more here. 


 

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