If there’s anything besides the approved substances on your hand, you can be retroactively suspended. “When pitchers come in, there’s a little swab and you swab their hands-similar to how you do it at TSA and you send it off to the lab.
That way, every ball that comes out has a consistent feel to it.”įinally, Bauer capped off his proposed solution with a protocol to ensure pitchers coming off the mound don’t have anything besides the agreed upon substance on their pitching hand. Its good to go for 20 or 30 minutes…you do it every single inning. The ball comes out the other end and gets dumped into the ball bucket. It’s sprayed from all sides with a certain approved substance.
“Create a machine…when the balls come out of the box, they run down a conveyor belt into a little house. How’s that going to happen? Glad you asked… “The only way to do this is to make the ball somewhat sticky and then you have to ban everything except for rosin or whatever.”īauer believes that a substance should be allowed that will be applied to all the balls in a consistent fashion. That being said, Bauer did provide a very creative solution on how MLB can level the playing field for batters and protect pitchers from a rash of injuries due to having to alter their mechanics and grips. Typical MLB fashion, they didn’t get a whole about this right.” Undoubtedly, he brought the heat when asked for his opinion on how the MLB has handled the issue this season.
Adding to his tweets, Bauer was interviewed by the SportsNet LA pregame team prior to Tuesday night tilt against the Phillies. The right-hander gave his thoughts on the new rules enforcement policies soon after the news started breaking yesterday. One of the more vocal people on this subject has been Dodgers starter Trevor Bauer. On Tuesday, Major League Baseball dropped a memo to teams and players that changes would be coming for pitchers and foreign substances used for increased spin rate.
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