MLB Pitchers are Sounding the Alarm: The Baseball is "Too Slippery

Major League Baseball's decision to curtail the daily homerun barrage by manipulating the ball has once again come under scrutiny. Now that MLB's agenda has come to light, the fallout seems to be a daily focal point. This time though, however, it's the pitchers who are taking issue with the latest baseball. A year after the ban on "sticky substances" such as Spider Tack, the mound lizards are crying slippery foul.   After a string of recent incidents where batters were struck or pitchers had difficulty with control, the apparent slippery surface of the baseball has been thrust into the ...

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