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Remember a while back, when baseball players suddenly started showing up looking like linebackers, with absurd muscles, comically OVER sized helmets, and crushing balls 500 feet? And remember how people tried to act like it was natural? Or that guys were just spending a couple more minutes in the weight room?
Well, we’re back to those days again. Except instead of hitters juicing up, we’re talking about pitchers rubbing down, allegedly.
Quietly over the past few weeks, MLB has started making more noise about pitchers using foreign substances on the ball, to get a better grip and increase spin rate.