The stick-up job? Over. Done. Kaput. Major League Baseball is dropping the hammer on any set of hands, potentially boosting spin rates and grips with foreign and banned adhesive substances. Ten games gone for any man who falls victim to a negative ruling after an umpire determines a pitcher is cheating while on the bump. So take a last good glimpse at the ERA numbers of your favorite gunslingers and flame throwers because none of these statistics will matter by this same time next week – and the week after. The institutional body of America’s greatest pastime is ironically going full iconoclast in tearing down pitching godheads
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