MLB Will Watch For Pitchers Altering Baseballs

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Published on March 25 2021 6:02 am
Last Updated on March 25 2021 6:03 am

Major League Baseball will be stepping up its monitoring to try to stop pitchers from using foreign substances to alter baseballs.

The league wrote a memo to teams Tuesday with three new measures described: gameday checks for violations in dugouts, clubhouses, tunnels, batting cages and bullpens; baseballs that come out of play will be given to the commissioner’s office for inspection, both randomly chosen balls and ones that are suspicious; and data will be reviewed to analyze spin rate changes in pitchers suspected of using foreign substances.