A week ago,
Tyler Glasnow went cold turkey.
Like countless pitchers past and present, the 27-year-old Rays phenom had used something to better grip the baseball. “My substance of choice is sunscreen and rosin,” Glasnow told reporters Tuesday. Without it, the ball was too chalky and slick to grip properly. So Glasnow applied a foreign substance to his fingers before each pitch, not in the pursuit of spin, but in the pursuit of control, he said. That’s against the rules, of course, but Major League Baseball has looked the other way for decades.
Except for this year.
