The next week ahead will be telling for New York Yankees pitchers and pitchers across all of baseball as MLB umpires start checking and suspending pitchers that use any sticky substance to improve spin rate. You can be sure that Yankee ace Gerrit Cole will be in the crosshairs of those umpire checks.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports, “Major League Baseball is expected to announce today that it will suspend players caught with any foreign substance for 10 days with pay to help curtail the widespread use of grip enhancers by pitchers around the league.