> Why such a big issue now all of a sudden? Statcast [0] + Tradition In the past ten years major technological developments came online. Players for the first

> Why such a big issue now all of a sudden? Statcast [0] + Tradition In the past ten years major technological developments came online. Players for the first time could measure spin rate of baseballs and see how it affected pitches. Players like Trevor Bauer started experimenting out at Driveline Baseball in Seattle. The innovations diffused and here we are. Now tradition. Major League pitchers have a long tradition of using substances to help them pitch better. A much to young heymijo watched the 1989 movie Major League and was introduced to Eddie Harris, the crafty veteran pitcher. A scene from the movie: < "What’s that shit on your chest?" "Crisco. Bardol. Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curveball." > Of course, if the umps are watching me close, I just put a little jalapeño inside my nose and get it running, and if I need to load the ball up a little, just wipe my nose. Pitchers have been putting stuff on the ball for ages. It has been loosely enforced if at all up until now. Some substances are even legal, like the rosin bag. So technology + tradition combined and we reached an inflection point. Oh yeah, there's a new substance that came out called Spider-tack, which is taking sticky to the next level. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statcast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statcast