By now, you know that Major League Baseball has announced a desire to crack down in earnest on all of the ways that pitchers have historically skirted the rules banning foreign substances on baseballs, and they are NOT HAPPY about it. As Timo noticed in the last thread, Tyler Glasnow says he tore his UCL because he had to death-grip the baseball once he could no longer use his trusty sunscreen to impart absurd amounts of spin on the ball, and for all I know he may be right.
But my first thought in all of this is that this kind of rule change must be good for the Braves, because one look at the box score will tell you that Braves pitchers just do not know how to cheat — either we’ve got the only honest pen in baseball, or our pitchers are just as bad at gunking up the ball as they are at locating it.