To stick or not to stick
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Baseball must be the only sport that will make a significant rule change, well, not a rule change but a change to how a rule is enforced, midseason.
And, beyond that, they haven’t defined how the rule should be enforced. Are all substances banned? Just Spider Tack? Can they still use rosin and sunscreen? I think most players, even batters, believe the pitchers should be allowed something to get a grip on the ball, but the tack seems to give pitchers too much of an advantage.
Aaron Boone still confident in the quality of the Yankees’ at-bats; Mike Ford demoted to Triple-A; Luis Gil developing as a starter; D-Rob on U.S. roster as Americans try to qualify for the Olympics; Yankees acquire Cannon
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May 3, 2021
Last week, you may have noticed that Kenta Maeda prominently featured in a Matthew Roberson article on this site, though probably not in the way he would have liked. He was the guy throwing the pitches that led to the “nearly 900 feet of home run” that Franmil Reyes hit. Maeda has been on the business end of a lot of home run highlights so far this year. He’s already given up seven of them after only surrendering nine last year in three times the number of innings pitched.
This is the same guy who finished second in AL Cy Young voting last season and allowed a stingy .219 wOBA (97th percentile). This year things are quite different, as Maeda carries a 6.56 ERA, a 6.16 FIP and a 4.19 xFIP through his first five starts. That 97th percentile wOBA from last season? Well it’s in the fourth percentile this season at .439. You might look at his elite walk rate of 4.5%, his swollen HR/FB rate of 26.9% and his soaring .372 BABIP and think that this is just a bit of bad
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