For the fifth time in the not even two full years Rich Hill has been employed by the Dodgers, he is on the disabled list because of a blister. He is convinced there is something different about the baseball these days, so he was interested to hear that the league had commissioned a study.
On Thursday, the results came back: There indeed is something different about the baseball. It is flying greater distances off the bat. The ball is not juiced, the scientists said, but otherwise they are not entirely sure what is going on.
Hill was not terribly impressed.