Study: MLB balls were not juiced in 2019

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks during the Baseball Winter Meetings on Wednesday at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.It turns out they’re not all playing with the same baseball. The way they’re made, it would be impossible.

The record number of home runs flying out of big league ballparks in 2019 was the result of both the launch angle revolution and less drag on baseballs, likely due to “manufacturing variability,” according to a 27-page report that four independent scientists presented Wednesday morning at the Baseball Winter Meetings in San Diego.

The study found no intentional changes introduced by either Major League Baseball, which commissioned the report, or Rawlings, the…