Why MLB Can’t Stop Pitchers From Cheating 

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King of Juco tested the alcohol vs rosin thing and in a 1 minute video he proved that the alcohol made the ball stickier. Scherzer got ejected and banned for 10 games for doing exactly what the umpires told him to do. It's ridiculous

Modern sports: "AI enhancements are going to threaten the integrity of sports." Also modern sports: "Secret mud hole in New Jersey"

Just so much interesting stuff there. Great content!

Having a MLB approved substance for extra grip makes a lot of sense to me. You already give pitchers a rosin bag, so why not give them an approved substance that you could more easily regulate.

whats crazy is pitchers are cheating so much that it almost seems like baseball exists

"The same company that made napalm, agent orange, hydrogen bombs, and breast implants. Are working with MLB to make a new baseball." That was a fucking flashbang of a sentence.

It’s always made me laugh that everyone took this family at their word that “this mud is the best mud.” We are very susceptible to the placebo effect.

10:28 “whether I’m doing a good job or not idk but I haven’t had any complaints” *me at every job I’ve worked*

Losing 7-5 while throwing a no hitter is the most absurd thing I've ever heard😂

Just guessing, MLB doesn't want to use the Japanese/Korean balls because then they don't control them. They want to be able to change the formulation of the sticky stuff so they can play with spin rates, walks, strikeouts, etc. without letting anyone else know in the middle of the season.

So you cant have sticky hands, but you need to have sticky baseballs. Absolutely amazing how well thought out that is lol. 😂

Glad to see all the footage of my local team, the Rocket City Trash Pandas, in this one! That no-hitter loss was mind blowing to me and I had no idea they were using the pre-tacked balls. That certainly explains a lot!

I used to work for the Cardinals and I would often see the clubhouse employees mudding the balls prior to the game. They told me one day that the MLB officials were supposed to be doing it but they would pass it off on them all the time. There was no supervision whatsoever, literally four guys sitting around a table in the laundry room with a bucket of mud and a giant basket of baseballs.

For someone that hasn't watched a baseball game in over a decade and hated playing the sport, I sure watch a lot of baseball videos. Just so much interesting stuff there. Great content!

I love how your style & the way you tell these stories is so engaging, even to people like me who haven't watched baseball in ages. Last baseball game I watched was a Rangers vs Cardinals World Series game, and even that was only one game in about a decade. Yet here I am, watching all your videos religiously because they're that good!

Scherzer wasn't caught cheating. The ump told him to wash his hand with alcohol, which he did, then the ump threw him out because his hands were covered in alcohol and rosin

been watching baseball my whole life and I never would have known this!

I'm ok with pitchers cheating as long as it benefits my favorite team

These videos are the perfect length and aooo addicting. Great job man

I learned more about baseball in this one video than I have in my entire life, and I enjoyed it. Bravo sir

I'm from Brazil, live in New Zealand. Never watched a baseball match, until I watched your videos about Ohtani. Now I play MLB show, watch MLB highlights and all ur videos. They are , Literally, By far, Not even close, the best videos about baseball I've ever seen, in my entire life! Well done!!!

I love how most of the clips were Max Scherzer

MLB: "the games are too slow we need to speed things up" Also MLB: "we need to interrogate pitchers for 30 mins a game and eject them for doing what we tell them"

Bro you have the best baseball channel on YT... So happy to have found you all those years ago and see you grow into the large channel that you are today! 😁

Being consistent is hard for MLB

Dow chemical making the balls? Cut to 30 years later "Did you or someone you know play baseball and develop skin cancer in your throwing hand?"

Great vid! That Angels - Mariners brawl was the best thing to happen to the Mariners in years. :D

We used to mix glycerin and powered rosin for grip on bronc saddles and bareback riggins. Great grip. Glycerin in the hair and rosin in the bag, easy.

I love this channel. I just got into baseball a few months ago and this channel has helped me stay consistent with watching the game.

Great content!! Appreciate all you work here. I dont ever watch baseball but have watched nearly all of your videos

The umps petting dudes, poking and prodding their ears, the HILARIOUS dude that was staring at MadBum...I swear, if nothing else, all this has made for some pretty hilarious moments. lol

1:51 the opposite of this happened to me a couple of times when using to much resin while playing handball. It just rips 1 or 2 layers of skin from your finger.

Honestly this just proves bauer was right

The fact that this keeps happening and the MLB has not realized why it's happening is crazy to me.

This guy makes me question my own reality sometimes 😂😂😂😂 phenomenal storytelling

Umpire needs to signal immediately when an inning ends and they're going to check. Wiping your throwing hand on anything during or after this call needs to result in a suspension. Walk a new ball over to the pitcher, have them close their hand over it, umpire then compresses their grip on it for a bit, then ask the pitcher to slowly open their hand. If the ball doesn't drop right away, ejection and suspension.

wasn't the machine testing for tackiness Bauer's idea who they decided to just shove to the side? crazy!

This one man is the only reason i am kept up with baseball😂

“…this was disgusting” made me die

I think this substance had 2 ingredients to work. One is kept in the pitcher's hand and the other in his ear / hat / glove. That way umpires don't feel anything whilst inspecting, but once the pitcher put his hand with the key ingredient the substance reacts and finally works to provide more grip

I was at the game when Scherzer was ejected. He got so much attitude from the crowd from cheating even though he didn’t it was sad to see

I love your videos so much. Consider covering more baseball history I think you would be great at that.

Domingo German said he will “try” to use less rosin next outing.

I can’t watch baseball anymore but love watching jombo because they are short funny and entertaining. I got to the end of the video before I realized this was a longer video. Loved it, felt like I actually was involved in the conversation

I am so appreciative of your story telling and overall production and knowledge of the game! You’re the best baseball RU-vidr by far! Thank you so much from me and everyone else that watches your videos!

I think the key to this is going to be better understanding of fluid dynamics around the baseball. To this end, I'm thinking a pre-tacked ball could work IF the ball was not tacked all that much (enough to ensure a solid grip) AND if the ball was able to cause a lesser effect through spin, such as by slightly lowering the seams. Of course, you also need to let pitchers actually get used to the stuff- first of all so the stats are accurate (think of it this way: If the brakes in your car were suddenly a little less sensitive, how smoothly would you be braking the first time you drove it?) and second of all so we don't get injuries left and right immediately after introduction.

I took a drink every time you said 💯 and I'm hammered out of my mind so thunks

I used to play softball and in 81 and 82 they used a ball known as T4000....everyone on the team could hit that ball out of 300 foot park....after it killed 3 people it was banned...i still have one on the dresser...the ball had same thing in center that golf ball does

Amazing as always. Keep it up!

love your content,thanks for getting me into baseball

😂..I watched this with my teenaged sons and couldn’t stop laughing.😅 Too funny! Keep it up.

We use stuff like resin in my sport handball and if you use too much it’s not uncommon that you tear the skin off you fingers. The stuffs great though

It's been the same ump squad that threw every player out for "foreign substances" this year. I'm convinced both Max and German were simply using rosin. Look at German's spin rates, they never went up during the two games brought up in this video...Which really doesn't make sense if he was cheating. That's the reason you use the "sticky stuff"

I mean, I licked my fingers on my throwing hand and wipe them off before every pitch while playing 2B all through high school. Still do it while playing 16" softball. It always felt like the leather on the ball reacted much grippier than without doing that. Especially if I got infield dirt and/or dust on my hands. I think if they standardize something, that would be the way to go. But who knows.

i wanted to make sure, and it says that this rosin stuff contains pine resin when powdered resin gets into contact with alcohol, it becomes super sticky.. and ya cant get it off . it just melts into your hand . just throwing it out there, never played baseball, resin is used in printmaking, im a printmaker

During the world series Framber Valdez was using his sweat and mixing it in with the rosin to create a sticky substance and then he would blatantly wipe it off on his pants as he approached the umpire for the check. Everyone just kind of ignored it. But it is interesting how all these legendary pitchers from last year are struggling this year.

Watching the umpire (who i will not mention by name) caress Madbums hand while staring longingly at him will always make me laugh out loud.

The Trash Panda no-hitter reminds me of the White Sox vs. Detroit game where the only runs were scored due to wild pitches. The last one being in extra innings and directly into the umpires face.. 😶😅

“This was disgusting!” That made me crack up

Love the content keep it up 👍

If the balls in Japan and Korea have solved this problem already, why doesn't MLB just buy the balls from Japan and Korea?

So the problem is already solved. Sign a contract with Mizuno. I remember seeing all the Japanese pitchers in the WBC complaining about how hard it was to get a grip on the ball. Makes their dominance even more incredible. Must be super hard to come over to the MLB as a pitcher.

Hey man I’m the rare case you see this comment I love the style and way you present the videos very fascinating information delivered in a fantastic format and many of others would probably agree keep up the awesome work :)

The ump staring down Bumgarner always makes me laugh.

“More mud on their balls” I’m dying 💀

I respect people who know how to defend their rights, to prove, despite the fact that they are a coach or a senior on assignment. Athletes deserve respect

i like how you say "pithcers losing their mind" in the beginning but really %95 of it is Max Sherzer clips lol

"Japan figured it out" "MLB is struggling to find the right substance" "Hey Japan, can you send us some balls pretty please?"

the thing about foreign substances is that they are as old as the game, whether it be the spitballers of the 30s or the use of spider tack. what I think is the problem nowadays is that it is not a few isolated people using them, it is a large percentage of pitchers. I think it all stems from the MLB's desire to be less boring and engage younger people, but they aren't going about it the right way

The Scherzer one pissed me off the most

This channel rocks. Idk shit about baseball, but I finish every one of your videos and they are so fascinating.

gee...i wonder why cricket balls dont slip out of the bowlers' hands so often...we too use varying forms of grips to induce different spins when the balls bounce

#4 on trending nice!

Even if MLB comes up with a machine test to asses stickiness, how are the pitchers supposed to know how to achieve that ideal stickiness?

This was super interesting. I did not know this was an issue in the MLB.

Awsome video keep up the awsome work

Keep up the good work😊

Anyone who got sticky stuff on their hands knows how hard it is to just wash off. Looks like these umpires have never gotten something sticky on their hands.

As a pitcher in high school and early college. I wish i stuck with it. Knowing they used laced balls changes everything this is insane lol

bro I loves these vids

Edit: 8:30 thank you. Despite Cone’s experiment actually being laughable, I’m glad someone finally referenced this. I mean fans can’t now be mad that the guy with the power to call things arbitrarily balls and strikes based invisible lines can now deem something at his discretion “too sticky”. Cone’s experiment was dumb bc if you don’t FULLY wash them, it can make it worse. You rid of everything but the stickiest stuff which is last to go. Basically the % of sticky sig increases. I work with rosin regularly - in a jam use acetone if you must. Soap & water softens tissue far too much in sure they don’t allow it bc pitchers and blistering. Literally there’s no good answer here. 7:35 ppl are still outraged over this lol it’s as black and white as it gets. Anything excessive on the glove isn’t allowed. How much more clear can the guideline be? It literally says rosin - even if it’s rosin. It doesn’t matter if it’s excessive Jesus lol he never denied it was on his glove and they even went against tossing him initially. Literally just told him it’s too sticky. Does it again lol like what do you expect

As someone who played at upper levels, the simple combination of sweat and dirt worked for me in most cases. If I needed something extra, a little spray-on Coppertone Sport would make a world of difference.

A lot of this stuff shows how old an unwilling to modernize this league is. Can you imagine if if NHL goalies had a sticky substance in the glove that would kinda be allowed but not really ? Or if the pucks in every arena were a little bit different ? Crazy stuff.

This has to be the single best spokesperson for baseball i've ever seen I've seen a lot of channels focusing around basketball, football, etc, and none of them even come close to this one around baseball. i'm a fat, lazy american IT guy who will never care for anything to do with sports but with the sheer insanity that this channel presents in terms of the players, rules, etc, by gods witness you got yourself a baseball fan now

Bro is the best baseball RU-vidr ever

I don't get the outrage. First they encourage more home runs in the steroid era, then suddenly that's bad. Then now when pitchers are successful, that's bad. Shouldn't we want the best performances for all talent, help or not? Sheesh!

Keep it up I love this channel

When I was a kid we got a bunch of official league baseballs and I remember thinking they must have been some cheap knockoff balls that we somehow got but I then found out about how they rub mud on it to make them less slick. They obviously can't use treated leather anymore because of how many balls they go through in a game it just doesn't make sense it has to be synthetic, but the synthetic material is garbage

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Watching this happen is like a car crash. I can't look away from the RU-vid videos explaining how the league is failing itself, but I can't bring myself to watch a game because it's just awful.

For karinchak i guarantee it was sometime of conditioner in his hair mixed with the rosin

Baseballs problem is inherent to the game. It's easier to throw a ball than to hit a speeding ball with a stick. You can change the ball and stick to compensate, but you end up in a precarious situation where no one can hit.

I think this hits on a particular peculiarity of human behavior: the power of belief. Now that pitchers know those spin rates are achievable, they have a new goal to chase. Whether or not sticky substances are used, they have a new goal, and will work towards it. Cheating or not, it’s going to be the new normal.

Role model Mad Max Scherzer is showing kids that cheating is lucrative to the tune of $43.33 M per season (he and Verlander are the two highest paid MLB players)!

Wonder if it’s a 2-part compound, where neither the Rosen bag (sp?) nor the hair are sticky, but fast acting and fast de-activation together ? ?

Homie at 1:12 needs to stop rubbing Spider Tack in his eyes. He's turning into one.

They could possibly just solve those problem with a textured leather

This channel should be allowed to make specials on MLB network, they don’t have content like this.

1:57 I thought it does improve grip, which allows the pitcher to improve the spin rate?