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Tyler Glasnow Blames MLB Crackdown for UCL Injury: 'I Truly Believe 100% That's Why I Got Hurt'

Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow went on a brutally honest rant Tuesday concerning MLB's crackdown on pitchers using foreign substances for better grip.

Earlier, an MRI revealed that Glasnow suffered a partial tear in his UCL along with a flexor strain and was placed on the 10-day injured list. A timetable for his return has yet to be announced, but he said no surgery would be required. But he wasn't looking at the glass half full.

Glasnow, 27, was nothing short of honest when it came to his use of foreign substances—specifically sunscreen and rosin—by his own admission and said "I'm choking the s--- out of my pitches" now that he's stopped using it and changed his grip.