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It would be interesting to see how much impact this is having on the game overall. Seems to me this is low hanging fruit to inject more offense into the game, regardless of how much of a boost it is giving to pitchers overall.

Hey pitchers, stop cheating...offense goes up. Literally accomplished by the umps paying attention, or by suspending guys after video like this comes out.
 
Seems like it would be a decent option, because instead of more rules-tinkering it’s technically just enforcing existing rules which have fallen out of favor.

On the other hand, if it’s as widespread as I’ve heard anecdotally, it’s going to be hard to do.
 
Julio3000 said:
Seems like it would be a decent option, because instead of more rules-tinkering it’s technically just enforcing existing rules which have fallen out of favor.

On the other hand, if it’s as widespread as I’ve heard anecdotally, it’s going to be hard to do.
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You hit the first guy caught with a 1 year suspension and the others will fall back in line.
 
Bauer was openly asking people to contact him on how to increase the spin rate on his pitches a few years ago. He pointed out that the Astros were accomplishing this and saying it’s basically impossible to do without a sticky substance , and it seems like he’s finally started doing it just as others were.

They say Cole of the NYY is gonna have to figure something out as he really benefitted.
 
Enscheff said:
It would be interesting to see how much impact this is having on the game overall. Seems to me this is low hanging fruit to inject more offense into the game, regardless of how much of a boost it is giving to pitchers overall.

Hey pitchers, stop cheating...offense goes up. Literally accomplished by the umps paying attention, or by suspending guys after video like this comes out.
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I'd say adding 400-500 RPM on a pitch is a fairly sizeable difference wouldn't it?

Is Ronnie about to go en fuego on folks???
 
Slippyjms said:
10 games is basically just skipping a start. Doesn’t seem like a huge deterrent.
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First offense it is. It is also going to hurt relievers more. You most likely going to catch a starter early in a game. Then he can’t come back for 10 games is going to really hurt your pen and depth. It will start the process at least. You can’t just start executing people when you basically said I don’t care you cheat for years now.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
Year is a bit extreme. But hit 3-4 guys with 10 games should start sending messages.
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Steroids is 50-80 games for the first time and that wouldn’t affect pitchers as much as everyday players so the penalty for a pitcher has to be higher since they only play once every 5 days.
 
Hudson2 said:
Steroids is 50-80 games for the first time and that wouldn’t affect pitchers as much as everyday players so the penalty for a pitcher has to be higher since they only play once every 5 days.
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Days off is not the issue it is the lost wages.
 
Hudson2 said:
You hit the first guy caught with a 1 year suspension and the others will fall back in line.
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I mean that it may cause problems because teams are obviously depending on it/encouraging it, so it may be hard to get them on board.
 
Julio3000 said:
I mean that it may cause problems because teams are obviously depending on it/encouraging it, so it may be hard to get them on board.
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True. Give them fair warning, then stick to your guns. Being weak and inconsistent with it will make the problem worse not better.
 
Btw- it may explain Gausmans issue with the Braves. If they found out and he had to quit, then it would explain his sudden drop from effectiveness then suddenly back to being a strong option in SF.

He’s been mentioned a good bit as a user of the bull frog/pine tar
 
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