NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred thinks the use of banned sticky stuff is more widespread than the three pitchers ejected this season for illegal grip aids. “I am sure that out of an ...

"Nothing arbitrary about the enforcement," Manfred insisted following an owners meeting on Thursday, per Ronald Blum of the Associated Press. "The umpires all receive uniform training on what the use ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Pristine white baseballs that would not require rubbing are under consideration by Major League Baseball as a way to solve the issue of pitchers using sticky substances for better grip.

NEW YORK — At the end of a week that included A’s fans in Oakland pleading for new owners who won’t look to relocate as well as a significant step forward for the current owner’s efforts to move to ...

The research tells us that command is a little more finicky year to year, but stuff stays sticky. So we often chase the young pitchers that have the nastiest pitches — that makes sense. But to be a ...

New York Mets relief pitcher Drew Smith was ejected on Tuesday for sticky stuff but claimed that an MLB official said his hands were clean beforehand. The New York Mets‘ season has not gone to plan ...

Pitchers’ use of sticky stuff — even the performance-enhancing superglue — and the forthcoming crackdown isn’t really a cheating scandal, it’s a belated reckoning that has more to do with aesthetics ...

As MLB’s crackdown on foreign substances begins Monday, all eyes will be trained on pitchers and umpires trying to navigate a midseason sea change, and on the effects the sudden end of a longstanding ...