It wouldn't be a MLB offseason without a baseball-related scandal. Despite commissioner Rob Manfred insisting one baseball would be used during the 2022 MLB season, there is evidence three different baseballs were utilized, according to Bradford William Davis of Insider.
That conclusion comes courtesy of Dr. Meredith Wills, an astrophysicist who has conducted various studies on MLB balls the past couple years. Dr. Wills managed to collect a sample of 204 baseballs from the 2022 MLB season, and determined three types of balls were being used in games: The dead ball MLB promised it would use, the "juiced" balls that were used in previous seasons and a third ball that split the difference.