The 2017 MLB season saw the most home runs hit in history, causing many players and fans to speculate that the baseballs had been doctored or compromised.
After months of denying that the baseballs were the source of the problem, it appears that commissioner Rob Manfred has taken the next step to curbing the league’s home run dilemma.
According to Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated, Manfred is requiring all 30 teams to store baseballs in air-conditioned, enclosed rooms for the 2018 season:
For the first time, Major League Baseball is standardizing how its 30 clubs store baseballs, according to several sources familiar with the plan distributed to clubs.