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Former Angels staffer names players in ball doctoring scandal
Posted on 1/8/21 at 5:27 am
Posted on 1/8/21 at 5:27 am
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The opposition also includes a declaration from Harkins in which he recalled a March 26 interview with attorneys from MLB and the Angels. During the interview, Harkins claims, he identified Cole, Justin Verlander, Edwin Jackson, Max Scherzer, Felix Hernandez, Corey Kluber, Joba Chamberlain, Adam Wainwright and Tyler Chatwood among the pitchers who previously asked for his specific blend of pine tar and rosin, which became popular throughout the league after he made it for former closer Troy Percival more than 20 years ago.
Harkins also named several current and former Angels -- Percival, Brendan Donnelly, Kevin Jepsen, Cam Bedrosian, Keynan Middleton, Yusmeiro Petit, Luke Bard, Matt Andriese, Dylan Peters, Jose Suarez, Kaleb Cowart and Dylan Bundy -- who used the blend.
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Harkins was fired last March, ending a nearly four-decade run with the Angels, after the organization was informed by Major League Baseball that he was providing pitchers with an illegal blend of rosin and pine tar, a violation of a rule that had never been strictly enforced.
Harkins' attorneys, Daniel Rasmussen and Matthew Brown, filed suit against the Angels and MLB in late August, and the defendants filed a motion to dismiss it in early November. A Jan. 21 hearing has been scheduled to determine whether the case will move forward.
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"Hey Bubba, it's Gerrit Cole," the text reads. "I was wondering if you could help me out with this sticky situation [winky face emoji]. We don't see you until May, but we have some road games in April that are in cold weather places. The stuff I had last year seizes up when it gets cold ..."
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Posted on 1/8/21 at 5:39 am to tduecen
I thought this was going to be about Manfred orchestrating changes to the composition of the baseballs so they’d fly farther. Doesn’t every pitcher already do the pine tar/rosin stuff?
Posted on 1/8/21 at 5:47 am to tduecen
lol so old boy had the secret ratio
Posted on 1/8/21 at 5:50 am to emoney
quote:pretty much as long as you don't make it obvious they don't care.... This guy got caught and fired so he is naming all of the pitchers he makes this for. So you will probably see teams ask the umpires to check these pitchers for a substance more now.
pitcher already do the pine tar/rosin stuff
Posted on 1/8/21 at 5:56 am to tduecen
gee, a lot of effective pitchers
funny how that works
funny how that works
Posted on 1/8/21 at 5:58 am to gthog61
Ban them all
More Astro cheating
More Astro cheating
Posted on 1/8/21 at 6:13 am to gthog61
quote:Hitters like that pitchers use pine tar. It gives them better grip and makes wild pitches less likely. Batters don’t want to get hit.
gee, a lot of effective pitchers
That’s why umpires and teams don’t enforce the rule even though they know everyone uses it.
They’ll only enforce it when it’s particularly egregious because they have to pretend like they care.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 6:45 am to tduecen
Baseball. Meh. Who cares about that boring, outdated sport?
Posted on 1/8/21 at 7:40 am to PrimeTime Money
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Hitters like that pitchers use pine tar. It gives them better grip and makes wild pitches less likely. Batters don’t want to get hit.
That’s why umpires and teams don’t enforce the rule even though they know everyone uses it.
They’ll only enforce it when it’s particularly egregious because they have to pretend like they care.
All of this right here. He's not wrong at all
Posted on 1/8/21 at 7:42 am to PrimeTime Money
quote:Those times being when you can hear the ball rip off the pitchers fingers like Velcro
They’ll only enforce it when it’s particularly egregious because they have to pretend like they care.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 8:08 am to ReauxlTide222
Or when you idiotically have it in plain sight like ole Pineda:
Posted on 1/8/21 at 8:30 am to tduecen
The majority of pitchers use foreign substances, and have for decades. Nobody really cares unless they don’t even bother to hide it.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 8:37 am to DallasTiger45
Ok lets ban every team and pitcher since the 1960s over this scandal.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 8:43 am to tduecen
Start the list.
Now all pitchers cant be in the HOF because "character clause" Get on your high horse writers.
Now all pitchers cant be in the HOF because "character clause" Get on your high horse writers.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 8:57 am to tduecen
So this was the stuff Bauer was crying about a few years ago
Posted on 1/8/21 at 9:05 am to TigerFan91
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So this was the stuff Bauer was crying about a few years ago
Difficult to answer this question... that pussy is always crying about something.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 10:33 am to tduecen
Pitchers are using foreign substances? How has MLB kept this under wraps for so long?
Posted on 1/8/21 at 10:42 am to PrimeTime Money
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Hitters like that pitchers use pine tar. It gives them better grip and makes wild pitches less likely. Batters don’t want to get hit.
I don’t agree with this. Pitchers don’t do it for wild pitches, they do it to zone in more.
To play devil’s advocate, it aids pitchers because they can push their limits more. For every wild pitch that is avoided there’s probably 5 or 10 pitches that just miss their mark and may be easier to hit. Not all slips are huge, it could be a 2” miss and that’s a HR.
Posted on 1/8/21 at 11:34 am to baldona
Posted on 1/8/21 at 12:07 pm to Patfic15
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Who cares about that boring, outdated sport?
A lot more people than those who care about your opinion sporto
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