Did anyone think Tuesday’s long-awaited memo detailing Major League Baseball’s plans to crack down on pitchers’ use of foreign substances would truly be the end of the debate?
No sooner had MLB vice president Michael Hill’s email to all players and teams hit inboxes — and, moments later, MLB’s official press release to the media — before an already messy, embarrassing saga got messier and more embarrassing. It took minutes for players to give their (mostly dissenting) opinions on social media and mere hours for Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow to drive home a terrifying theory: that going without sunscreen and rosin had, at least in part, contributed to the UCL tear in his elbow.
