The Ringer | Ben Lindbergh: Sticky stuff is the talk of baseball, with MLB vowing to crack down on ball doctoring starting on Monday. Simple enforcement isn’t enough though, as usual MLB has left a whole lot of questions unanswered around the use of foreign substances — not the least of which is why the league chose June 2021 to start coming down on this rule, despite it being a well-known practice for approximately 150 years of organized baseball. (Gerrit Cole aired his own frustrations after last night’s start about MLB’s failure to communicate with its pitchers about the policy.
Around the Empire: Yankees news - 6/17/21
